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November 21, 2018
[Liberty Leading The People – Eugene Delacroix (1830)}
Allen Ginsberg continuing his notes on “The French Revolution”
AG: “In the den nam’d Destiny a strong man sat,/ His feet and hands cut off, and his eyes blinded; round his /middle a chain and a band/ Fasten’d into the wall; fancy gave him[…]
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Tag: France
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November 20, 2018
Allen Ginsberg on William Blake’s poem “The French Revolution”, continues
AG: So then we have this vision of the seven towers of the Bastille. Yeah?
Student: Yeah, I think I read in the Blake Dictionary that the seven towers represented the different victims of the Revolution.. Pure woman….
AG: Yeah, I’ve got[…]
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November 19, 2018
Allen Ginsberg on William Blake’s poem “The French Revolution”, continues
AG: Okay, now to the poem. So you get the idea. ((S. Foster Damon) also says (that) Blake had to make up the details of Louis’s council[…]
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September 13, 2018
Alice Notley talk on Allen Ginsberg and his exemplary internationalism continues and concludes today
Poem 6 is a song, “Industrial Waves,” that is to be sung (and I don’t know the[…]
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September 10, 2018
The feature this week – Alice Notley‘s keynote speech at the Allen Ginsberg Symposium, this past May 5th, at the St Marks Poetry Project in New York – on Allen[…]
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January 5, 2018
Looking forward and looking back, with the year’s first “Weekly Round-Up”, starting off with Allen Ginsberg – Fotografìa y Poetica Beat at the Photology Gallery in Garzon, Uruguay – the first ever showing of Allen’s photographs in South America! (this show is coming to a close, closing-date is next Tuesday, January 9).[…]
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October 6, 2017
Just a reminder that it’s Kerouac celebrations in his home-town of Lowell this weekend. Festivities have already begun, but plenty’s still happening – you can[…]
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September 15, 2017
Next week in Paris (September 20-22) sees the sixth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network – “The Transcultural Beat Generation” is this year’s focus “(Collaboration. Publication, Translation)”. The three days are broken down as follows: Wednesday, the 20th – “French Edition(s) and Beat Intellectual Life in Paris” – Thursday, the[…]
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