Good not excellent recording quality (picks up high end and a small hum around 10 minutes). Phil Whalen(?) chimes in now and then. Ginsberg is funny and open. Features a nicely sung unaccompanied "To Tirzah".

0:00: Allen pushes the sitting meditation.
5:08: WC Williams "Thursday"
6:30: Explains connection btwn Buddhist and Yankee Pragmatic metaphysics and general thesis of poetic yoga.
9:00: Funny personal reflections on teaching and his recent failures/nervous breakdowns therein.
11:10: Haiku and RH Blyth; favorite Asian writers and books
19:05: "Nivrandahath(?) adorns himslf with neck garland of smells..." One of AG's favorite poems from the Orient by Changdeva
22:45: Ho Chi Minh's poems
25:00: Andre Michaux, Ed Dorn, Greg Tate
26:50: Transcendent visions become boring.
35:00: What languages do you read?
37:20: Rosseau's Banquet Anecdote
38:45: "Being Geniuses Together" AG says "one of the most influential books on me"
41:05: Blake's To Tirzah sung
45:00: Blake, illustrations: Alvethorpe Mansion
49:30: Gertrude Stein's role
51:35: Political Disillusionment
57:00: Varieties of political demonstrations

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