Material wealth : mining the personal archive of Allen Ginsberg /
A prolific poet, raconteur, activist and thinker, Allen Ginsberg was also a prolific collector, meticulously saving letters, postcards, draft notes and manuscripts, photographs and snapshots, appearance bills and rally broadsheets, not only featuring him personally, but also his fellow poets, singer...
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Brooklyn, New York :
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Anne Waldman
- Introduction / Pat Thomas
- 1943-46: Columbia
- 1946: Merchant marine; Columbia again
- "Towel" (parody of Howl) / Terry Southern
- 1959: Allen's career explodes; Kaddish
- 1960-1: South America; Yage; New York; Paris; Morocco
- 1962: India; Japan
- The congress on the dialectics of liberation / Pat Thomas
- 1968-69: Wales visitation; Chicago; Fall of America continues
- Chicago '68 / Pat Thomas
- Hippies try to merge with the White Panthers / Pat Thomas
- 1972-76: Mind breaths; Naropa poetry; Rotterdam; England; Trungpa; Father Death
- 1977-83: Naropa; Punk rock class; European tours; Kerouac conference
- Ginsberg and The Clash / Pat Thomas
- The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the yippies / Pat Thomas
- Ginsberg as a recording poet and singing bard / Pat Thomas
- Ginsberg discusses Kerouac's influence on rock music / Pat Thomas
- 1950-53: Mexico; NYC
- 1954: Burroughs; Junky; Mexico; San Francisco
- 1955-56: San Francisco; Howl
- 1957-58: Morocco; Europe; Paris
- 1963-64: Vancouver; North America; San Francisco; Kesey
- 1965: Iron Curtain; London
- 1965: Dylan, Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin / Pat Thomas
- 1965-67: Fall of America: Beginning of a Poem of These States; The Vortex
- Must be the season of the witch (female yippies) / Pat Thomas
- 1970-71: Blake; Jessore Road; First Blues
- Phone call between Henry Kissinger and Ginsberg / Pat Thomas
- Calcutta street scenes, September 1971: Allen Ginsberg, Wynn Chamberlain, John Giorno / Pat Thomas
- 1984-88: China; Russia; Israel; Collected Poems & White Shroud; Professor Ginsberg
- 1989-94: The Lion For Real; Holy Soul Jelly Roll; Cosmopolitan; Greetings
- 1995-97: The Loft; Knitting Factory; Europe; Death
- Music; Recordings.