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October 26, 2018
Andy Clausen‘s Beat – A First-Hand Account of The Latter Days of The Beat Generation, long-awaited, finally appears from Autonomedia – Beat is, according to its jacket-blurb, “an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond….Clausen’s eyewitness memoirs, stories, anecdotes[…]
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Tag: Ed Sanders
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October 19, 2018
Andy Warhol’s photo archive (consisting of 3,600 contact sheets and 130,000 images -“the most complete collection of the artist’s black-and-white photography ever made available to the public”) was[…]
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August 17, 2018
Today Friday August 17, Ed Sanders‘ 79th birthday. Is there anyone more maverick, indefatigable? – ““Noli in spiritu combueri” – Salute! – Refuse to be burnt out!”
Ed’s been featured many times here on The Allen Ginsberg Project –[…]
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July 20, 2018
The Beat Scene – Photographs by Burt Glenn – edited by Tony Nourmand and Michael Shulman (with an essay by Jack Kerouac), a dazzling portfolio of images shot between 1957 and 1960, both in New York and San Francisco – close up, contemporaneous, and at the heart of the Beat phenomenon –[…]
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July 11, 2018
AG: I have this chronology here, so I’d like to run over a few things in it. The beginning of this (is on page) four hundred. Little miscellaneous poems. In the miscellaneous poems of the Poetical Sketches, which are 1769 or so, there’s one “To Spring”, “To Summer”, “To Autumn”, “To Winter”,[…]
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June 1, 2018
June 3 – this Sunday – is Allen’s birthday. To celebrate the Howl Happening Gallery in New York City has organized once again it’s now-annual event. This year it features David Amram, Ed Sanders, Hettie Jones, Eileen Myles, Simon Pettet, and Peter Hale (manager of the Ginsberg Estate), amongst others. The event[…]
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April 27, 2018
An Allen Ginsberg Symposium coming up next week at the Poetry Project. Three days of events next Thursday through Saturday. Full details of the programming can be found here. Highlights include, “Allen Ginsberg: An International Poetry, Its Genius & Particles”, a keynote talk by Alice Notley, workshops with Anne Waldman and Ed[…]
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April 23, 2018
The Allen Ginsberg-Barry Farber radio transcription that we’ve been serializing continues and concludes today
BF: I want (you) to read from the Table of Contents, like the virtuous…
AG: (It’s) a bit long, like eight minutes or so. Something.. And I had been used, generally, on television, to be told[…]
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