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Charters, Ann; Ginsberg, AllenAllen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class on Russian Futurists, July, 1981. (July 7, 1981)

Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class discussing and reading from Russian Futurists. Topics include Sergei Esenin's book Confessions of a Hooligan, Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in trousers," Mayakovsky's biography and prison story, rebellion's relationship to Punk, utopian heroic Communism, linguistic exploration, and Lenin and Trotsky on Russia's $150 million loan.


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

Artist/Composer: Charters, Ann; Ginsberg, Allen
Date: 1981-07-07 00:00:00
Label / Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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Reviewer: Blank - - February 3, 2005
Subject: Mayakovsky's punk poems
Readings of Mayakovsky are wonderful. This is an excellent and enjoyable intro to his life and work.

0: begins "I always see the underside..." Duncan? Whitman?
2:00: Russian Futurists & Whitman connection= nationalist questions
5:20-10:26: Mayakovsky recording
15: Charters' bio of Mayakovsky and history of futurists
28:40: AG reads from M's & Gorky's journals
29:20: Section 1: Cloud in Pants
31:00: Putdown of your Love
33: Frank O'Hara and M's influence
34:50: Section 2: Cloud in Pants
39:24: Ann reads "youth have a lot of cramming to do"
40:50: Section 3: Cloud in Pants
43:40: Section 4: Cloud in Pants
45:50: Unfinished prologue to the second part of a long poem on the 5 year plan (reads two translations)
1:01:15: Opening(?) a Man
1:04:30: Ann reads The Ages of Mayakovsky
1:26: Poem for 150 Million
1:33: Ann reads Lenin's letter to Lunacharcksky re: Poem for 150 Mill
Class cuts off.