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Ginsberg, AllenAllen Ginsberg Class part 1 (June 16, 1981)

The first class in an Allen Ginsberg course on Expansive Poetics. Ginsberg opens the class with a brief history of the topics of courses he has taught in the past. He then explains his expectations for this course and the material he plans to cover in the sourcebook/anthology he is compiling. He then reads Geza Roheim's Children of the desert, Shelley's Hymn to intellectual beauty, Ode to the West Wind and the end of Adonais. The class discusses rhythm and the expansive breath and how it influences one's work.


This audio is part of the collection: Naropa Poetics Audio Archives

Author: Ginsberg, Allen
Date: 1981-06-16

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Reviewer: Blank - - January 21, 2008
Subject: imaginative explosions
0- 15: Allen describes how he got to this class- teaching other writers work, not his own and at the same time teaching direct particulars (WCWilliams) and then teaching Howl and how to get "strange original language"
17:21: Simple trick to do it- exagerate, combine words, "list poems" or "catalog poems" "amazing thing is to not repeat the same word over and over again."
21: Anthology is an imaginative explosion to respond to students who said previous teaching was "too grounded, too dry, too sane"
21:30: begins Rozheim
33: Shelley's Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
52: Crane, suicide and the closed pattern
1:02:40: Sheeley's Ode to the West Wind