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Allen Ginsberg: First Blues

Read "First Blues" reviewed by Mark Corroto


As I listen to this two-CD recording by the late Allen Ginsberg, I cannot help thinking about Dick Cheney. The American vice president might just be the exact polar opposite of Allen Ginsberg, kind of a beat Dr. Evil. I suspect he's never heard Ginsberg read his unexpurgated Buddhist poetry or joined a sing-along with his harmonium. But then again, who knows what Cheney does in his bunker. He might be learning the lyrics to “Everybody Sing"--"everybody is just a ...

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Peter Orlovsky, Poet and Partner of Allen Ginsberg, Has Died

Peter Orlovsky, Poet and Partner of Allen Ginsberg, Has Died

Source: Michael Ricci

Peter Orlovsky, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg and a poet in his own right, died May 30 in Vermont of lung cancer. He was 76.

Orlovsky met Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1954, before Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem, “Howl." Published in 1956, “Howl" was the subject of a 1957 obscenity trial that became a landmark free-expression case. Afterward, Ginsberg and Orlovsky moved to Paris, where they stayed with Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and others in a boarding house that ...

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50th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" Court Ruling -- Fantasy Has Original Beat Poetry Recordings

50th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" Court Ruling -- Fantasy Has Original Beat Poetry Recordings

Source: conqueroo

1993's 'Howls, Raps & Roars' box and the 1998 reissue of 'Howl and Other Poems' contain Ginsberg's original recordings made for the venerated Bay Area label

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Allen Ginsberg wrote his epic poem “Howl" in mid-'50s San Francisco and Berkeley, and the rest is literary history. The work, first read in public in 1955 and published in 1956 before emerging victorious in a 1957 court ruling that it was not obscene, has been hailed as one of ...

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