February 2012
10 posts
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poetry before 4
wordsandglitter:
I feel ancient, as though I had Lived many lives. And may never now know If I am a fool Or have done what my karma demands.
Gary Snyder
“Four Poems for Robin”
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A Search for Black Power, History, & Culture:... →
wakeupblackpower:
“A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and Black people call across or scream across or walk across defying physics in the stream of their will. Our world is full of sound Our world is more lovely than anyone’s tho we suffer, and kill each other and sometimes fail to walk the air. …
January 2012
27 posts
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The White Foxes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti →
thewhitefoxes:
The changing light at San Francisco is none of your East Coast light none of your pearly light of Paris The light of San Francisco is a sea light an island light And the light of fog blanketing the hills drifting in at night through the Golden Gate to lie on the city at dawn And…
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“Language is a virus from outer space.”
– William S. Burroughs (via abstracted-guise)
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Cut-Up Poem by William S. Burroughs, Courtesy of...
EVERYWHERE MARCH YOUR HEAD”
A rap of Sound A.
turns Urns back O Our lots con the time to you
change no mat desires Arrival of/ / / /
you finger on the starts &&
These stance of O will go…
begin ire..
Everywhere march your head
Cut up Rimbaud’s TO A REASON (A UNE RAISON) Words by Rimbaud, arrangement by Burroughs and Corso
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“The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different...”
– Amiri Baraka (via bathroomstallpoetry)
“I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early...”
– Lawrence Ferlighetti, I Am Waiting (abridged)
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Allen Ginsberg Project - tiny biography →
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“down to the roots that will tickle my ear.”
– Peter Orlovsky (via thearousal)
Pull My Daisy →
victoryofpenthesilea:
Actors:
David Amram Sally Gross Richard Bellamy Pablo Frank Peter Orlovsky Alice Neel Gregory Corso Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac Larry Rivers
Pull My Daisy (1959) is a short film that typifies the Beat Generation. “I love that now she sells Bingo the dog. Affordable prices and friendly atmosphere. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack...
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gahi asked: Thank you very much for answer:) If you are interested here is link to video of Allen Ginsberg in Czechoslovakia( where he was elected for King of May) in 1965- it´s pretty rare. Allen is in 1:35 to 1:58 - w w w.ceskatelevize. cz/porady/10266819072-vypravej/ve-stopach-doby/1965/allen-ginsberg-zvolen-kralem-majales-v-praze/
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PEN →
Allen Ginsberg was a huge activist during his lifetime, and one of the organizations he supported was PEN.
PEN is a “global literary community protecting free expression . . by defending writers and campaigning for freedom of expression”
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gahi asked: Hello, do you know a poem King of May from Ginsberg? Have you posted it before? thanks for answer, have a nice day:)
“By the holy spirit I mean the recognition of a common self in all of us and our...”
– Allen Ginsberg, “The Playboy Interview: Allen Ginsberg,” April 1969 (via kingofdacassel)
Dirty From the Rain: song (1954) by allen ginsberg →
youaredrifting:
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human— looks out of the heart …
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December 2011
51 posts
mar 1959, Diane di Prima
inshoeboxes:
if I could sit like postures on a hill
tick off with smiling eyes a thousand seasons
until your hale & haughty flesh
rested between my legs whose quick etc.
would take you warmly home. . .
after a hundred seasons
twenty springs
the hands held out to me will not be yours
the mouth that draws me down will be the earth's
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“Who was this girl
In her white nightgown
Clutching a pair of jeans
On a...”
– Gary Snyder (via swallowthekey)
“for you are the Fool, and the Hanged Man
whose light shines endlessly
and that...”
– Diane di Prima, “Zero” (via fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin)
“who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the...”
– Allen Ginsberg (via w-0-0-d-s)
“Starved in metropolis
Hooked on necropolis
Addict of metropolis
Do the worm...”
– Allen Ginsberg (via vaguehowie)
