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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as The Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. In 1956, "Howl" was seized by San Francisco police and US Customs. In 1957, it attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. "Howl" reflected Ginsberg's own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, adding, "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg (with subtitles) - HQ
Allen Ginsberg - Interview + [May 1994]
An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg [2006] - (FULL MOVIE)
Allen Ginsberg - Face to Face
Allen Ginsberg Reading Howl (Part 1)
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Avant Garde"
Allen Ginsberg reads "Howl," (Big Table Chicago Reading, 1959)
Allen Ginsberg - Sunflower Sutra
Allen Ginsberg's LSD poem to William Buckley
Allen Ginsberg interview on Charlie Rose (1994)
Actors: Skylar Mathey (producer), Ruth Du (producer), Ruth Du (editor), Ruth Du (writer), Ruth Du (director), Michael R. Sweeny (editor), Adam Santiago (actor), Caitlin Talbot (actress), Rebecca Hirsch (actress), Jeffrey Farber (actor), Steve Carreri (actor), Kohl Beck (actor), Roger Massih (actor), Jessica Hendricks (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Short,Actors: Rainer Knepperges (actor), Markus Mischkowski (director), Markus Mischkowski (actor), Kai-Maria Steinkühler (actor), Kai-Maria Steinkühler (director), Hans-Dieter Delkus (actor), Haraldt (actor), Marcel Belledin (editor), Helmut W. Banz (actor), Sonja Potthast (actress), Jens Classen (actor), Harald Hotelling (writer), Harry Weiß (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Gus Van Sant (producer), Danielle Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Mary-Louise Parker (actress), Jeff Daniels (actor), Pablo Ferro (miscellaneous crew), Pablo Ferro (miscellaneous crew), David Strathairn (actor), Treat Williams (actor), James Franco (actor), Allen Ginsberg (actor), Carter Burwell (composer), Bob Balaban (actor), Jon Hamm (actor), Anthony Pettine (miscellaneous crew), Rob Epstein (producer),
Plot: It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Keywords: 18-year-old, 1950s, 29-year-old, adult-animation, advertising, advertising-agency, airplane, alcatraz, american-flag, anal-sexActors: Liev Schreiber (actor), Michael J. Harker (miscellaneous crew), Roy Scheider (actor), James Urbaniak (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Jeff Danna (composer), Mark Ruffalo (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), James Urbaniak (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Nick Nolte (actor), John Sloss (miscellaneous crew), Erin Heidenreich (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Animation, Documentary, History, War,Actors: Larry Day (actor), Tyrone Benskin (actor), Jason Cavalier (actor), David Cross (actor), Bill Croft (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Benz Antoine (actor), Joe Cobden (actor), Bill Croft (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Benz Antoine (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Don Francks (actor),
Plot: Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, activist, actor, actress-playing-male-role, african-american, airplane, airplane-stewardess, airplane-tripActors: Josh Pais (actor), Olek Krupa (actor), Tate Donovan (actor), Josh Hamilton (actor), Brendan Sexton III (actor), Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Ivan Martin (actor), Amy Ryan (actress), Peter Conboy (actor), Paz de la Huerta (actress), Chris Bauer (actor), Rodrigo Lopresti (actor), Canella Williams (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Simon (miscellaneous crew), Hanna Hall (actress),
Plot: A look at Neal Cassady, who was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known as the inspiration for the character of Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road.
Keywords: acid, beat-generation, book, bus, character-name-in-title, enlightenment, fame, gasoline, lsd, male-rear-nudityActors: Colleen Camp (actress), Grant James (actor), Guy Pearce (actor), Don Novello (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), George Plimpton (actor), James Naughton (actor), George Hickenlooper (actor), Jeff Galpin (actor), Joel Michaely (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Hayden Christensen (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Beth Grant (actress), Illeana Douglas (actress),
Plot: A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality...
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, accidental-fire, accountant, actor's-life, actress, adultery, aires, airplane, alice-in-wonderland-statueActors: Luis Felipe Tovar (actor), Kiefer Sutherland (actor), Ernest Troost (composer), Alain Silver (producer), Norman Reedus (actor), Danny Dimbort (producer), Avi Lerner (producer), Trevor Short (producer), Courtney Love (actress), Ron Livingston (actor), Willi Bär (producer), Luisa Huertas (actress), Sam Trammell (actor), Daniel Martínez (actor), Michael Beugg (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Thurston Moore (actor), David Markey (actor), David Markey (actor), Kim Gordon (actress), Mike Watt (actor), Raymond Pettibon (editor), Raymond Pettibon (producer), Raymond Pettibon (writer), Raymond Pettibon (actor), Raymond Pettibon (director), Janet Housden (actress), Joe Cole (actor), Abby Travis (actress), Joe Cole (actor), Joel Rane (editor),
Plot: A strange spoof in the worst taste imaginable, renowned artist Raymond Pettibon studies the interpersonal relationships among a group of urban middle-class terrorists in the early Seventies.
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, bad-taste, based-on-true-story, digit-in-title, hippie, independent-film, number-in-title, punctuation-in-title, terrorismActors: Herschell Gordon Lewis (writer), François Klanfer (actor), Kerry Feltham (director), Kerry Feltham (producer), Yvonne Gilbert (actress), Calvin Butler (actor), Peter Faulkner (actor), Carol Carrington (actress), George Luscombe (miscellaneous crew), George Luscombe (miscellaneous crew), Italo Costa (editor), Rick McKenna (actor), Neil Walsh (actor), Featherstone Fanshaw (editor), James T. Lawrence (actor),
Plot: This bizarre amalgam of "Alice in Wonderland" and the transcripts of the Chicago 7 Trial makes for an interesting commentary on the American judicial system.
Keywords: 1960s, abuse-of-power, anti-authority, anti-conformity, art, conspiracy, counter-culture, courtroom, independent-film, justice"Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955. The poem is considered to be one of the great works of the Beat Generation. "Howl" was originally written as a performance piece, but it was later published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books. The poem was originally considered to be obscene, and Ferlinghetti was arrested and charged with its publication. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene! Animation is by Eric Drooker.
[Stereo] The esteemed poet/author is interviewed on late night USTV. He also does an impromptu "song", albeit a "clean" version, as explained afterward.
Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allen Ginsberg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas. In addition to candid discussions about everything from Ginsberg's personal life to his literary career, home movie footage of the Howl author as a child and archive footage allow contemporary fans to witness such landmark moments as his 1965 reading at Royal Albert Hall and chanting at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Previously unreleased footage of Ginsberg performing with Paul McCartney is also included, as are interviews with Dick Cavett and William Buckley, and the heartfelt memorial service in which P...
Full version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_kKhRmRkM Attribution - http://www.archive.org/details/naropa_anne_waldman_and_allen_ginsberg
In 1959, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky accompanied Ginsberg to Chicago for a benefit reading for "Big Table" [named at Kerouac's suggestion], a newly established literary publication born as a result of censorship of the student magazine the Chicago Review. The reading took place on 29 January, 1959. Audio courtesy of public archives on http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ginsberg.php *For some reason, UMG has claimed rights to -20 seconds of this video, so it is now blocked in Germany...
One of my favorite recordings of the poem. I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry. Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed, surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery. The oily water on the river mirrored the red sky, sun sank on top of final Frisco peaks, no fish in that stream, no hermit in those mounts, just ourselves rheumy-eyed and hungover like old bums on the riverbank, tired and wily. Look at the Sunflower, he said, there was a dead gray shadow against the sky, big as a man, sitting dry on top of a pile of ancient sawdust-- --I rushed up...
Feeling the ripeness of the moment, Allen Ginsberg requests his host William F. Buckley, Jr on Firing Line to allow him to read a poem. When Bill acquiesces, Ginsberg recites 'Wales Visitation' - a free verse composition he penned under the influence of LSD in Wales, UK
Allen Ginsberg on his work, activism, and a new documentary about his life.
Face to Face with Allen Ginsberg - interview by Jeremy Isaacs (1995). Includes performance of 'Father Death Blues': "Hey Father Death, I'm flying home / Hey poor man, you're all alone / Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going // Father Death, Don't cry any more / Mama's there, underneath the floor / Brother Death, please mind the store // Old Aunty Death Don't hide your bones / Old Uncle Death I hear your groans / O Sister Death how sweet your moans // O Children Deaths go breathe your breaths / Sobbing breasts'll ease your Deaths / Pain is gone, tears take the rest // Genius Death your art is done / Lover Death your body's gone / Father Death I'm coming home // Guru Death your words are true / Teacher Death I do thank you / For inspiring me to sing this Blues // Buddha Death, I wake with yo...
I had to put this back on youtube. Not sure who originally put it up, but it's the only video interview by Neal Cassady I've ever seen. Great clip, despite the misspelling of "Neal".
Allen Ginsberg Interview in Austin (1978) Writer and poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) is interviewed by Austin Community Television on February 13, 1978. (This is tape 1). He talks about his life, his work, and events in Austin. This tape was shot on black and white video and does not have great audio. Public Access Community Television Collection. AR.2007.015.000107
Allen Ginsberg talking about Kerouac's appearance on "Firing Line". From the "What Happened To Kerouac?" extras.
Silent 16mm film of Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as Lucien Carr and his wife Francesca and their three sons, Simon, Caleb and Ethan, and Mary Frank and her children Pablo and Andrea. Shot in the East Village neighborhood of New York in the summer of 1959 at the Harmony Bar & Restaurant at E 9th Street and 3rd Avenue. Interested in licensing? Contact info@oddballfilm.com or 415.558.8112 http://www.oddballfilm.com
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Allen Ginsberg reads and sings his poetry on the show 'Writers Uncensored,' presented by The Lannon Foundation. Donald Was accompanies Ginsberg on Bass, and Ginsberg talks about the power of poetry to affect social and political change. Shared by Quotes Yes: http://www.quotesyes.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/quotesyes Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/quotesyes Society6: http://www.society6.com/quotesyes
If you have any questions, or suggestions for other poems you would like to hear me read, please feel free to comment below. I've also posted a link to Allen Ginsberg giving an actual reading of this poem. It's different however for throughout the reading Ginsberg ad-libs passages that were never in the completed and published draft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orar-V3y5Sk Thank you for Watching
The Lannan Foundation Presents Writers Uncensored: Spring 1991 #68 One of the major American voices of the twentieth century reads and sings his poems accompanied by bass player Donald Was and ruminates about the power of poetry and its ability to effect social change. Run time 28:00 Producer Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
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Allen Ginsberg on Fresh Air: Writers Speak from 1994 with Terry Gross
Le film raconte la formidable et durable amitié entre Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg et William S. Burroughs, qui a donné naissance au mouvement littéraire de la Beat Generation. Tout commence à New York, à la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale et passe par San Francisco, Mexico, Tanger, Paris et s’achève une quinzaine d’années plus tard avec la publication en rafale de Howl (Allen Ginsberg), Sur la route (Jack Kerouac) et Le Festin nu (William S. Burroughs), trois livres qui ont valeur de manifeste.
From the CD box set Holy Soul Jelly Roll. Vol. 2: Caw! Caw! It's a bit long, but worth your while honest! Nobody said Kaddish at her funeral, because there were not ten Jewish men present. Ginsberg tried to have one performed for her, but was unable to since the two companions with him, Jack Kerouac and Peter Orlovsky, were not Jewish. So he wrote his own.
Provided to YouTube by Virtual Label LLC Kaddish (for Naomi Ginsberg) · Allen Ginsberg Holy Soul Jelly Roll ℗ 1994 Allen Ginsberg LLC Released on: 1994-09-06 Producer: Hal Willner Lyricist: Allen Ginsberg Music Publisher: May King Music Auto-generated by YouTube.
I've had this audio file on my laptop for a number of years and have always wondered when it was recorded. It is the first recording (not reading) of Howl. Thanks to this article for the info: http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/hear_the_very_first_recording_of_allen_ginsberg_reading_his_epic_poem_howl_1956.html
Panel discussion by John Perry, Claudio Naranjo, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts. July 31, 1968. The topis is madness, LSD, shamanism, schizophrenia and much more connected to arts, music and poetry.
The award-winning film The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg offers a fascinating portrait of a poet and photographer who helped define postwar American counterculture.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (Newark, 3 de junio de 1926 - New York, 5 de abril de 1997) fue un poeta y una de las figuras más destacadas de la Generación Beat en la década de 1950. Se opuso enérgicamente al militarismo, materialismo económico y la represión sexual. Ginsberg es mejor conocido por su poema épico "Aullido", en el que denunció lo que consideraba las fuerzas destructivas del capitalismo y de la conformidad de los Estados Unidos. Ginsberg era un budista practicante que estudió ampliamente disciplinas religiosas orientales. Vivía de una manera modesta, comprando su ropa en tiendas de segunda mano y residiendo en apartamentos en East Village. Uno de sus maestros más ingluyentes fue el budista tibetano, el venerable Chögyam Trungpa, fundador del Naropa Institute, ahora Naropa University a...
estratto dal film "urlo" di Rob Epstein e Jeffrey Friedman. montaggio tratto dalle parti di pura lettura musicata dell'intera poesia di Allen Ginsberg, urlo. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTELA LEGALE Legge 22 Aprile 1941 n.633 (G.U. n.166 del 16 luglio 1941), estratto dall'articolo 1: "Sono protette ai sensi di questa legge le opere dell'ingegno di carattere creativo [...] , qualunque ne sia il modo o la forma di espressione." Questa legge sancisce, semplicemente, che tutto ciò che è realizzato dall'ingegno creativo è protetto dai Diritti d'Autore. Ne consegue che la creazione di immagini che fanno riferimento al suo umorismo, alle sue doti creative, etc. è un elemento protetto dalla legge e che appartiene al suo creatore, ...
Poet is Priest
Money has reckoned the soul of America
Congress broken thru the precipice of Eternity
the president built a War machine which will vomit and rear Russia out of Kansas
The American Century betrayed by a mad Senate which no longer sleeps with its wife.
Franco has murdered Locra the fairy son of Whitman
just as Maykovsky committed suicide to avoid Russia
Hart Crane distinguished Platonist committed suicide to cave in the wrong
America
just as Million tons of human wheat were burned in secret caverns under the White House
While India starved and screamed and ate mad dogs full of rain
and mountains of eggs were reduced to white powder in the halls of Congress
no Godfearing man will walk there again because of the stink of the rotten eggs of America
and the Indians of Chiapas continue to gnaw their vitaminless tortillas
aborigines of Australia perhaps gibber in the eggless wilderness
and I rarely have an egg for breakfast tho my work requires infinite eggs to come to birth in Eternity
eggs should be eaten or given to their mothers
and the grief of the countless chickens of America is expressed in the screaming of her comedians over the radio
Detroit has built a million automobiles of rubber trees and phantoms
but I walk, I walk, and the Orient walks with me, and all Africa walks
And sooner or later North America will walk
Einstein alive was mocked for his heavenly politics
Bertrand Russell driven from New York for getting laid
immortal Chaplin driven form our shores with a rose in his teeth
a secret conspiracy by Catholic Church in the lavatories of
Congress has denied contraceptives to the unceasing masses of India.
Nobody publishes a word that is not the cowardly robot ravings of a depraved mentality
The day of the publication of true literature of the American
body will be day of Revolution
the revolution of the sexy lamb
the only bloodless revolution that gives away corn
poor Genet will illuminate the harvesters of Ohio
Marijuana is a benevolent narcotic but J. Edgar Hoover prefers his deathly Scotch
And the heroin of Lao-Tze & the Sixth Patriarch is punished by the electric chair
but the poor sick junkies have nowhere to lay their heads
fiends in our government have invented a cold-turkey cure for
addiction as obsolete as the Defence Early Warning Radar System.
I am the defence early warning radar system
I see nothing but bombs
I am not interested in preventing Asia from being Asia
and the governments of Russia and Asia will rise and fall but
Asia and Russia will not fall
The government of America also will fall but how can America fall
I doubt if anyone will ever fall anymore except governments
fortunately all the governments will fall
the only ones which won't fall are the good ones
and the good ones don't yet exist
But they have no being existing they exist in my poems
they exist in the death of the Russian and American governments
they exist in the death of Hart Crane & Mayakovsky
now is the time of prophecy without death as a consequence
the universe will ultimately disappear
Hollywood will not rot on the windmills of Eternity
Hollywood whose movies stick in the throat of God
Yes Hollywood will get what it deserves
Time
Seepage of nerve-gas over the radio
History will make this poem prophetic and its awful silliness a hideous spiritual music
I have the moan of doves and the feather of ecstasy
Man cannot long endure the hunger of the cannibal abstract
War is abstract
the world will be destroyed
Monument to Socco & Vanzetti not yet financed to ennoble Boston
Vachel Lindsay Secretary of Interior
Poe Secretary of Imagination
Pound Secty. Economics
and Kra belongs to Kra, and Pukti to Pukti
crossfertilization of Blok and Artaud
Van Gogh's ear on the currency
no more propaganda for monsters
and poets should stay out of politics or become monsters
I have become monstrous with politics
the Russian poet undoubtedly monstrous in his secret notebook
Tibet should be left alone
these are obvious prophecies
America will be destroyed
Russian poets will struggle with Russia
Whitman warned against this "Fabled Damned of nations"
Where was Theodore Rosevelt when he sent out ultimatums from his castle in Camden
Where was the House of Representatives when Crane read aloud from his Prophetic Books
What was Wall Street scheming when Lindsay announced the doom of money
Where they listening to my ravings in the locker rooms of
Bricksford Employment Offices?
Did they bend their ears to the moans of my soul when I struggled
with market research statistics in the Forum of Rome?
No they were fighting in their fiery offices , on the carpets of
heart failure, screaming and Bargaining with Destiny
fighting the Skeleton with sabers, muskets, buck-teeth,
indigestion, bombs of larceny, whoredom, rockets, and pederasty,
back to the wall to build up their wives and apartments, lawns,
suburbs,
fairydoms,
Puerto Ricans crowded for massacre on 114th St. for the sake of an
imitation Chinese-Moderne refrigerator
Elephants of mercy murdered for the sake of the Elizabethan birdcage
millions of agitated fanatics in the bughouse for the sake of the screaming
soprano of industry
Money-chant of soapers - toothpaste apes in television sets - deodorizers on hypnotic chairs -
petroleum mongers in Texas - jet plane streaks among the clouds -
sky writers liars in the face of Divinity--fanged butchers of hats and shoes,
all Owners! Owners! Owners! with obsession on property and vanished Selfhood!
and their long editorials on the fence of the screaming negro attacked by
ants crawled out of the front page!
Machinery of a mass electrical dream! A war-creating whore of Babylon
bellowing over Capitols and Academies!
Money! Money! Money! shrieking mad celestial money of illusion!
Money made of nothing, starvation, suicide! Money of failure! Money of death!
Money against Eternity! and eternity's strong mills grind out vast paper of