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• Weekend links 164

  
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  Ekaterina Panikanova paints on books. Back in 2009 I bought a book of Art Nouveau illustration and design which contained an intriguing drawing by an Austrian artist, Franz Wacik (1883–1938). At the time there was little of Wacik’s other work online so I was delighted by the latest post at 50 Watts which ...
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• This Just In: College Hijinks Started Feud Between Ginsberg and Diana Trillings

  
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  The Daily Beast reports that the Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, has discovered the origins of a long-standing feud between Allen Ginsberg and Diana Trilling. The source? A letter from Diana Trilling to Peter Orlovsky , Ginsberg’s long-term partner, from the center’s newly acquired ...
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• Well, that does explain that… (A bit, anyway)

  
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  This explains a lot, but Im sure theres more to it . Ginsberg was a complex man, often hiding himself behind outrageous ideas and words. He was, by the various accounts Ive seen and the biography I read, a shy fellow who, especially in his younger days, lashed out rather than take the time to understand. I do think ...
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• The Ginsberg-Trilling Feud

  
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  The mystery of why Allen Ginsberg and Diana Trilling hated each other has been solved, writes Gregory Curtis of the Harry Ransom Center. Link: The Ginsberg-Trilling Feud The post The Ginsberg-Trilling Feud appeared first on heave-ho.org | all the news thats fit to click™ .
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• Beat Generation Poet Peter Orlovsky’s Archive Acquired by Ransom Center

  
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  Peter Orlovsky’s notebook titled Rolling Thunder, Oct. 29, 1975. The Harry Ransom Center , a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, acquired the archive of American poet Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), an important figure in the Beat Generation. Orlovsky was fellow poet Allen ...
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• Hear the Very First Recording of Allen Ginsberg Reading His Epic Poem “Howl” (1956)

  
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  Allen Ginsbergs great American poem, "Howl," was for me (like so many others before and after) a pivotal moment in my understanding of poetry, of art, and of America. Before reading "Howl," I had help William Carlos Williams (Ginsbergs mentor) and Robinson Jeffers as the poets I from whom I tried to learn the craft of ...
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• Ginsbergs Cold Summer Borscht

  
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  Recipe found at Dangerous MindsAllen GinsbergFrom Dangerous Minds:COLD SUMMER BORSCHTDozen beets cleaned & chopped to bite size salad-size StripsStems & leaves also chopped like salad lettuceAll boiled together lightly salted to make a bright red soup,with beets now soft - boil an hour or moreAdd Sugar & ...
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• Terror Defused in Public Art

  
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  by Gabrielle Lipton "Moloch! Moloch! ... monstrous bombs!" – Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" On a plot of soil in Manhattans Tompkins Square Park, a bomb sat in plain view. Four large tubes painted fire engine red stood wired to a digital timer that counted down from 99 minutes. It beeped, reset and started again, ...
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• Classic Books Revisited: Children of Albion.

  
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  Tell me I should get out more if you want to, but the book above is my most treasured possession (if you disregard mementos of the people I have loved). It’s a rare, battered, 43-year-old copy of the Penguin anthology Children of Albion : Poetry of the ‘Underground’ in Britain , edited by ...
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• FOR WALT AND ALLEN

  
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  by Rick Gray                                                                   My name is announced before takeoff. It’s JFK again, but this is a new terminal. I haul my carry-on past rich kids pouting In First-Class, already juiced,  and step ...
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• Summertime: No pants required

  
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  A gratuitous re-post from last year, but with some new additions:
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• CULTURE | Tonight: Neighborhood Heroes Series at The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  
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  From QuietLightning.org : Thrilled to announce our next show: Thursday June 6 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum , the latest installment of our Neighborhood Heroes series and a collaboration with the exhibit Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg . If you’re just tuning in, we’ve done shows in ...
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• Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s birthday with a few videos

  
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  In honor of Allen Ginsberg’s birthday (June 3, 1926), we’ve gathered a few videos together. We’ve got some poetry for you, a chant, and an interview or two. What are your favorite Ginsberg recordings? Please leave a comment below! Allen Ginsberg leads a chant in Chicago, 1968 ahead of the Democratic National ...
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• 20th Anniversary 3:15 Experiment Events June 2, 2013 2:30am-6pm

  
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       Join an epic conversation… an experiment in writing in altered states of consciousness! By exploring hypnogogic and hypnopompic states (between sleeping and waking), The 3:15 Experiment challenges writers, provides insight into the collective sleeping/dreaming mind, and creates a conversation ...
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• How the beat poet found himself reborn in the underground snooker club

  
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  Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in an underground snooker club – it’s a strong and not so unlikely image, given the man’s wide-ranging interests in all kinds of experience. And that is where Birmingham composer and pianist Steve Tromans is taking … Continue reading →
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• Illuminescence

  
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  I think of how Allen Ginsberg could see society when gizmos glistened salvation, freeways traced our future, freeon cooled our passions, primeval blackooze birthed plastic, the prophylactic of progress, east yeasted west, and Moloch masheened the spirit. I try to visualize the monstrous measure of plastic chit, the ...
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• Doodles by Famous Writers

  
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  An online gallery compiled by FlavorwireDoodles from the journal of Sylvia PlathFrom Flavorwire: ‘Sylvia Plath liked to doodle in her diaries, creating illustrations of her life, her dreams, and in this case, her nightmare about being chased by a hot dog and a marshmallow.’ [Read More]Also at A Piece of ...
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• The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents Beat Memories. The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

  
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  On March 25, in 1957, Allen Ginsberg helped make literary history. when 520 copies of his poem "Howl" were seized by U.S. Customs agents on charges of obscenity. Ginsberg and his publisher, City Lights, would fight those charges -- and win. The current exhibit of his personal photographs at the Contemporary ...
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• The Poetic Hipsters of New Brunswick: A short memoir

  
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  There never were any hipsters in Elizabeth. Elizabeth is like the hell of hipsters. All the Brownstones were torn down and replaced by McDonalds. The DeCalvacante family had its headquarters there. The bars are old school, and too truly old school to be retro. Worst of all, the people are sincere and earnest and work ...
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• Allen Ginsberg’s Celestial Homework

  
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  We have our friends at the Paris Review blog to thank for pointing us to Open Culture where they’ve posted the celestial syllabus to Allen Ginsberg’ s 1977 course at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics . A bit about the class: “Argh, you’re all amateurs in a professional universe!” ...
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