Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 287

September 30, 2016admin

Kristen Stewart [Marylou (LuAnne Henderson) in Walter Salles’  On The Road photographed in Los Angeles September, 2016 © Cousart/JFX images  WENN.com

 

Wait Till I’m Dead, Allen Ginsberg’s recently-published collection of uncollected posthumous poems, (which has not had anything like the notices that it should have), recently received an attentive and intelligent review in Empty Mirror from poet-scholar Marc Olmsted  (“What we come away with is wanting more..”) – see hereDrawing attemtion to Andrzej’s Pietrasz‘s Allen Ginsberg in Poland (Andrzej’s just back from a visit to the Beats show in Paris and he brought his camera)

Jeff Nightbyrd,

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Allen Ginsberg & Steven Taylor at Texas State 1996 – Q & A -1

October 11, 2014admin

Following on from our recent posting of Allen’s 1996 Texas State University reading, here’s a transcription of the Q & A that followed

Good morning. We have an hour I would ask you to speak clearly, there’s a lot of people in here (that’s what we like) and I want to thank Mr Ginsberg again for the wonderful show last night, it was amazing  AG: Considering that I was half-dead!  (but) I get inspired when I work with Steven (Taylor), who’s a good guitarist and a good scholar, (and) who came along  for the seminar You can’t hear … Read More

Ginsberg-Cherry-Rowan – Buddhism in Song

September 22, 2013admin
[Don Cherry]
[Peter Rowan]
[Allen Ginsberg]

Don Cherry at Naropa in August of 1976. We featured him yesterday, we thought to include him again today, alongside Peter Rowan (who we’ve previously featured here) in a discussion (and performance) of Buddhism–in-song. Audio for the occasion is here

Allen begins with a couple of his songs (Gospel Noble Truths and Guru Blues), beginning first with some spontaneous improvisations on the Prajnaparamita, Heart Sutra
Transcription follows.
AG: ….Do you know “Gate gate, para gate, parasam gate, bodhi svaha” – so I just made up one verse last night when … Read More

Allen in 1976 – The Vision of Naropa

September 21, 2013admin

western buddhist practice, contemporary buddhism, modern buddhism

[ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987)]

Allen Ginsberg, August 8 1976, (early days), speaking on the formation and the vision of the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University)

AG: In the last few days we’ve seen a lot of high American artistic activity presented here from this stage – Wednesday night, William Burroughs, who’s perhaps the dean of American novelists, at top form and funnier than ever, read an enormous beautiful section of.. from old and new work..Naked Lunch to the present year, which actually is, for any art audience in America, a great occasion, familiar and at home

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