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Charters, Ann; Ginsberg, AllenAllen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class on Jack Kerouac and Russian Futurists, July, 1981. (July 14, 1981)

Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class on Jack Kerouac and Russian Futurists, discussing Kerouac's method of revision, his five-cent notebooks, his book Old Angel Midnight, methods of composition, his 1956-1959 notebooks, James Joyce's Molly Bloom and Finnegan's Wake, Buddhist Shakespearean plays, Kerouac's On the Road scroll, Visions of Cody and Dharma Bums, and a short discussion of the Russian Futurists.


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

Artist/Composer: Charters, Ann; Ginsberg, Allen
Date: 1981-07-14 00:00:00
Label / Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

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Reviewer: Blank - - December 1, 2004
Subject: Great if you want the nitty gritty about K's method
Ann Charters

Ann reads a paper she wrote for the Bulletin of Research in the Humanities to a class. The paper compares notebooks with published works. Fascinating and DETAILED discussion of Kerouac by Ann and Allen.

2:19: Physical description of manuscript notebooks
4:29: "I haven't read a review...[discussing my method]"
10:10: Ann describes how the Bird Collection allows for new research, her method and her general thesis- Sometimes he revised, sometimes he didn't.

Comparison of Method

15:00: Ann compares 2 direct examples of manuscripts revised for publication. "Boiling Down"
19:20: K doesn't know what to write! from letter about Old Angel Midnight to friend. Ann mentions that K renumbered passages.
21:20: Quote from K about Goals of technique
23:52: Allen reads a sound passage.
25:00: "a hundred times more difficult than [conventional composition]."
27:00: Allen describes K's probable meditation methods
29:00: Ann and Allen disagree about European influence (Joyce).
30s: Demonstrates method used in commercial piece
37: Conclusions: Discusses method: Deleting, condensing, re-arranging.

Contents of Notebooks:

39: K tried to write a Buddhist Shakespeare play?!
43:00: K tried to write a book movie.
45:00: K describes moods: "Put myself down and see who's left"
48:00: Conclusions: "GodDAMNit Feeling!" from Paris Review interview
50: End of Paper: Q&A.
1:03: Evaluation forms, preserved forever.

Ginsberg

1:05: Klebnikov. Reads and discusses "Incantations on Laughter"
1:08: Little Song about the Bee
1:10 Discussion of sound mantric incantation innovations of Russian Futurists
1:13:48: Hard Talk (read by Ann)
1:15: Bio of Klebnikov