July 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, August 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 - the beats

beats

• Robert Creeley on the sentence

  Jack

  in revery, during a performance of the sort that helped later give rise to the spoken-word movement

• Clellon Holmes, "This is the Beat Generation" (1952)
• Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (Norton, p. 1210-15)
• birth of the beat generation: 45th anniversary of "Howl" at the Six Gallery
• link to "beat generation" sites
• A page from the typescript of Ginsberg's Howl
• David Antin on the response to Ginsberg in the cold war - namely that his writing was "anti-poetry," "unliterary"
• Allen Ginsberg and his psychiatrist
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Dog", "Sometime during Eternity" (Norton, p. 1006-7)
• audio: Ferlinghetti reads "Dog"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Baseball Canto"
• audio: Felinghetti reading his "Baseball Canto"
• Jack Kerouac, "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", and "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose"
• Jack Kerouac, three samples of spontaneous writing from Book of Dreams and Old Angel Midnight, with an introduction adapted from Ann Charters
• Jack Kerouac, "trying to think of a rule..." (.au audio file)
• Jack Kerouac, example of his babble flow
• Neil Cassady "raps" - a July 23, 1967 spontaneous performance, backed by the Grateful Dead, the Straight Theater Haight Street, San Francisco
• Jack Kerouac, excerpt from On the Road
• Herbert Gold's review of Kerouac and commentary on the beatnik "movement" (1957)
• William Burroughs, "The cut up method" (1963)
• Clark Coolidge on Kerouac's sound writing
• "Kerouac wore khakis" (Gap ad)
• "Empty baseball fields" (an .au file)
• Gary Snyder - basic materials for the counterculture
• Jack Kerouac - more audio files
• Allen Ginsberg's FBI file summarized by Herbert Mitgang in Dangerous Dossiers (1988)

  spoken word
  

• spoken word poetry
• Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
• Edwin Torres, "All Colors Not White"
• Torres, "A Wutherance of E"
• Edwin Torres bio
• Edwin Torres in performance, December 11, 1999, at the Writers House

  Jack Spicer

• readings by and about Jack Spicer
  

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