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November 16, 2018
Don’t Hide The Madness – read David S Wills’ “Angry Young Men Become Nice Old Men’, his review of the Ginsberg-Burroughs book on Beatdom – here
Allen Ginsberg photographer, the UK-based Far Out magazine. features[…]
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Tag: William S Burroughs
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November 9, 2018
November 9th – Robert Frank‘s birthday, his 94th birthday
We draw your attention to previous Robert Frank birthday postings here on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here, here and here
Don’t Hide The Madness – the William[…]
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October 31, 2018
“This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And[…]
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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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October 13, 2018
Coming out next week ( on Tuesday) – and much anticipated – Don’t Hide The Madness – William S Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg., from 1992, a documentary record of the meeting of two great minds.
As Burroughs and Ginsberg biographer, Barry Miles has written – “Steven Taylor’s transcriptions of Billl[…]
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October 12, 2018
A little anniversary slipped by last Sunday – October 7th – the legendary first (public) reading of “Howl”[…]
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October 5, 2018
The annual Jack Kerouac festival in Lowell, his home town (Lowell Celebrates Kerouac) began yesterday and continues through Monday. This year, LCK is observing the thirtieth anniversary of the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative and the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of The Dharma Bums. Among the highlights, David Amram (of[…]
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August 28, 2018
John Shoesmith’s interview with Bob Rosenthal continues
JS: Would the captions change much then, the more he was captioning? Especially some of the iconic ones which he must have captioned dozens of times.
BR: Sometimes the difference would be the change of an adjective, a tweaking, but sometimes something will come up[…]
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August 24, 2018
The esteemed Poetry Foundation has been working (consistently) on its web presence. It’s just recently consolidated and organized this useful resource – An Introduction to the Beat Poets.[…]
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August 21, 2018
Robert Frank – New York City, September 1993 – photo: Allen Ginsberg]
John Shoesmith interviews Jacqueline Gens on Allen Ginsberg’s Photography – continues
JS: Do you have any favourites from the collection?
JG: I loved the portraits from the 1980s. The one of Juanita Lieberman, from the Twelve Trees book, one of[…]
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