Tag Archives: Allen Ginsberg
Growing Up In America
Ok. Seriously. This is the last radical, Detroit blog post for awhile. I’m going to look for something completely inconsequential to follow this up with. I actually have a particular album release anniversary in mind and at least one book on my coffee table that’s begging me for a review. But, for now, here’s one [...]
Ten for Two
Continuing down the radical Detroit rock ‘n’ roll rabbit hole I stumbled into last week, here’s another John Sinclair-centric post. As a refresher, here are a few words from Michigan Today: John Sinclair, born in 1941 to an autoworker’s family in the little town of Davison, Michigan, took his B.A. in American literature from the [...]
City Lights at 60
When Gutenberg created the printing press humanity took a massive leap in literacy, social equality and political democracy. It’s hard to imagine in this day of tablet phones and digital literature, but after World War II the American paperback created a revolution of its own: it made books available for cheap and made publishing possible [...]
Celebrating Ginsberg
Following last month’s release of The Essential Ginsberg and the author’s June 3 birthday, here is the impressionistic biography An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg which tells the story of the Allen Ginsberg’s life from the point of view of his final days… Stay Awake! Please subscribe to my YouTube channel where I archive all of the videos [...]
Beiles And The Beats
Continuing our celebration of National Poetry Month, here are some words about South African poet Sinclair Beiles: Beiles was associated at-a-distance with the Beat Generation, but you have to get a little deeper into their mythology before you find his mark. Beiles was primarily a surrealist poet who was also known for his collaborations with [...]
Gallery-Going with W.S.B.
Another post celebrating the William S. Burroughs centenary, this video is a fascinating document of the man himself visiting a gallery show of his own paintings on paper at Galerie Waschsalon in Frankfurt, Germany. Here, we see Burroughs accompanied by Udo Breger and Burrough’s man Friday, James Grauerholz. Breger is a writer and publisher who [...]
Leonard Cohen’s Heroes
My last post about Leonard Cohen’s early recordings has me excited to curate this conversation about someone we all seem to care so much about. Leonard’s not everyone’s bag and it’s really wonderful to see so many folks interested in the man’s complex, felt lyricism. Not sure if I can find more unique documents to [...]
