Leftwing activist, #BeatGeneration poet, and queer #counterculture icon #AllenGinsberg died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1997. An influence on my poetic voice, a former professor kept the only copy of a tribute I wrote ('For Allen'). I still play a recording of 'America' in classes.

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„I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix.“

#AllenGinsberg #Howl Tod 1997

Corriere.it - Homepage: Bob Dylan, scoperta una bozza di testo rarissima dentro un libro di Allen Ginsberg

Bob Dylan, a rare draft of text discovered inside an Allen Ginsberg book.

#BobDylan #AllenGinsberg

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Bob Dylan, scoperta una bozza di testo rarissima dentro un libro di Allen Ginsberg

Dentro il volume è stato trovato un foglietto con dei versi scritti a macchina di «I'm Not There»

Corriere della Sera
“Acid Tests”, “electric Kool-Aid”, and “to drink the Kool-Aid"

Poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) attended the first Acid Test organized by Ken Kesey (1935-2001) on 27 November 1965. At the Acid Test on 12 February 1966, Wavy Gravy (b. 1936) dubbed the punch "electric Kool-Aid", inspiring the title of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968), by Tom Wolfe (1930-2018). Kool-Aid

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Copies of the great #AllenGinsberg poem #Howl were seized by #UnitedStatesCustoms on #ThisDayInHistory in 1957, and #LawrenceFerlinghetti and #ShigeyoshiMurao of #CityLightsBooks were charged with obscenity. They were later acquitted and continued publishing #BeatGeneration work.
‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive goes on show in New York

As the original On the Road scroll heads to auction, a new exhibition uncovers the private life of the Beat legend

The Guardian
Literary Hub » Ordinary Mind Remembering Ordinary Matter: Allen Ginsberg on Poetic Honesty
https://lithub.com/ordinary-mind-remembering-ordinary-matter-allen-ginsberg-on-poetic-honesty/
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Ordinary Mind Remembering Ordinary Matter: Allen Ginsberg on Poetic Honesty

In the West, the main tradition seems to be chaotic, because it has always been one of continuous change. In visual art, from Byzantine painting up through Renaissance painting, artists actually at…

Literary Hub
"Un #poema es como una #radio que puede transmitirse continuamente durante miles de años" #AllenGinsberg Bonita cita para el #13Febrero #DiaMundialDeLaRadio, al igual que las ondas de radio, la poesía sigue emitiendo significado y emoción mucho después de su creación.
Howl – Allen Ginsberg
Quelques œuvres littéraires traversent les époques avec la force d’un ouragan permanent. « Howl » d’Allen Ginsberg appartient à cette catégorie rare des textes qui continuent de secouer les consciences près de soixante-dix ans après leur première publication. La nouvelle édition bilingue proposée par les éditions Christian Bourgois, dans la tra
https://voiepoetique.com/journal/recensions/howl-allen-ginsberg/
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Howl – Allen Ginsberg – Voie Poétique

La voie poétique d’Allen Ginsberg
Le septième épisode « bonus » sur l’écriture poétique et spirituelle d’un des plus grands poètes de la Beat Generation. Vous pouvez, dès aujourd’hui, écouter l’épisode sur le poète : Allen Ginsberg L’épisode est disponible ici et sur toutes les plateformes habituelles.
https://voiepoetique.com/podcast/la-voie-poetique-allen-ginsberg/
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