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Ginsberg, AllenAllen Ginsberg class, (June 9, 1977)

A class in Ed Sanders's "Investigative Poetics" series, led by Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg discusses the contemporary political situation and the way in which political situations do and have interacted with poetry, with specific reference to the FBI, CIA, and Secret Service.


This audio is part of the collection: Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
It also belongs to collection: Audio Books & Poetry

Artist/Composer: Ginsberg, Allen
Date: 1977-06-09 00:00:00
Label / Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Keywords: political poetry

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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Reviewer: Blank - - January 8, 2005
Subject: Great Class
fascinating class

0: Discuss COINTELPRO's attempt to divide SNCC and Panthers (discussion includes Fonda, Cleaver, Hunt, Ginsberg)
11:30: Leary and Cleaver
13: Acid does not lead to community (:40: Leary talks to FBI about Weathermen, dispels Soviet connection)
19:30: Literary war on Beat Generation was weighted by CIA and FBI- Encounter mag- Spender, Podhoretz, James Angleton (head of counter-intelligence, friend of Pound and WC Williams) (see Saunders' Who Paid the Piper)
31: Leary and Berkeley Barb, investigative poetics- how do you do it without going crazy? How do you do it without ranting for an hour?
37: Benefits of Buddhist attitude in investigation.