On the Road: Ginsberg in Siem Reap & Other Beat Tales
The following is a transcript from a speech I gave recently at the Angkor International Festival...
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The Change: Allen Ginsberg, Reborn
This essay was originally published in Beatdom #21. On July 18th, 1963, Allen Ginsberg sat on a...
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Review: Ginsberg’s Karma
Ginsberg’s Karma is a short documentary about Allen Ginsberg’s trip through India between 1962 and...
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Metropolitan Greetings: Allen Ginsberg Behind the Iron Curtain (from Havana to Moscow)
In 1965, Allen Ginsberg traveled to Eastern Europe, visiting Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the...
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An Interview with Allen Ginsberg
This interview was conducted on 22nd May, 1988 at the Caffé Trieste in San Francisco. Am I a...
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The Fall of America Journals 1965-1971: a Meta-Review
Plymell and his friends inventing the Wichita Vortex contribute to a tradition stretching back…to...
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Review: The Fall of America Journals
The Fall of America Journals is the third of a three-book series edited by Michael Schumacher and...
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The Howling Inferno: Crying Out in Anguish to America
But all the streets are burning everywhere. The city is burning these multitudes that climb Her...
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Allen Ginsberg’s First Poem?
I was doing some research this morning for a forthcoming book about Hunter S. Thompson (who...
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The Protests of Ginsberg and Di Prima as Marginalized Minorities
There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the...
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Allen Ginsberg Changed My Life
I don’t know where it was that I first read Allen Ginsberg, but strangely enough, I wanted to...
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Virgules / After Cézanne
In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with...
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