Listen to audio

Stream (help)

M3U (Hi-Fi)
VBR M3U (Hi-Fi)
64Kbps M3U (Lo-Fi)

Play / Download (help)

(26.4 M)64Kbps MP3 ZIP
(77.0 M)VBR ZIP
(281.8 M)Flac ZIP

Ogg Vorbis

All Files: HTTP

Resources

Bookmark

Ginsberg, Allen; Whalen, PhilipAllen Ginsberg class on spontaneous poetics - Part 1 (August 6, 1976)

First half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on "Spontaneous Poetics." Discussion includes meditation and poetry with William Carlos Williams's "Thursday" as an example. Ginsberg discusses Indian poetry, Paris and Henri Micheaux, William Blake's "Tierza," Gertrude Stein, and political disillusionment. (Continues on 76p076.)


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

Artist/Composer: Ginsberg, Allen; Whalen, Philip
Date: 1976-08-06 00:00:00
Label / Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Keywords: New American Poetry; New York School; West Coast poetry; spiritualism and literature; beat movement; political poetry; protest poetry; Buddhism

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Individual Files

Write a review
Downloaded 1,098 times Reviews
Average Rating:

Reviewer: Blank - - December 2, 2004
Subject: Casual Q&A Class
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

THANK YOU KIND NAROPA LIBRARIANS