My introduction to Ginsberg was when my freshman college professor read us Howl and Mind Breaths outside class under a tree the first week of college. I was like this is college? all other classes were held indoors lol
I'm sitting, experiencing as The Romantic Lord Byron did, the Sublime of a thunderstorm- yesterday I listened to a contemporary comic who daily "rants" - though it's hot, I feel a chill- this is my first time hearing this poem of Allen's- volumes stolen by well meaning friends long ago- what I heard yesterday concerning cluster bombs and the typical hypocrisy of ANY politician, rents and food prices INSANE and in the halls of power only the janitors- summer break at at a 3 million cottage- how did we end up here- and how did Allen wandering a supermarket know- cry for the common man and woman- Namaste from Canada, where did my once brave, near innocent country go-?😊
+Hjarta Opaka there are two different versions of this that are published and they're both different from this one. This one has always been my favorite.
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I died at: "... The virgin Allen Ginsberg was expelled from Columbia on the mere suspicion that he was getting laid"
love to the great poet and his soul
"Now is the time for prophecy without death as a consequence, the universe will ultimately disappear"
only two minutes in and already my favorite by Ginsberg! so powerful..
"Death to Van Gogh's Ear" was my first Ginsberg experience. I encountered it (in a slightly different form, of course) in *The Beats* by Seymour Krim.
My introduction to Ginsberg was when my freshman college professor read us Howl and Mind Breaths outside class under a tree the first week of college. I was like this is college? all other classes were held indoors lol
The master of stream of consciousness poetry
I'm sitting, experiencing as The Romantic Lord Byron did, the Sublime of a thunderstorm- yesterday I listened to a contemporary comic who daily "rants" - though it's hot, I feel a chill- this is my first time hearing this poem of Allen's- volumes stolen by well meaning friends long ago- what I heard yesterday concerning cluster bombs and the typical hypocrisy of ANY politician, rents and food prices INSANE and in the halls of power only the janitors- summer break at at a 3 million cottage- how did we end up here- and how did Allen wandering a supermarket know- cry for the common man and woman- Namaste from Canada, where did my once brave, near innocent country go-?😊
Great, this is great
I love this version because it's different from the published one.
+Hjarta Opaka there are two different versions of this that are published and they're both different from this one. This one has always been my favorite.
What are the main differences?
Godspeed You! Black Emperor must love this guy.
This poem is prophetic.But no one listened-then as now!
very....
How prophetic!?
Thank you so much for posting this
in the beginning his tone of voice was similar to Kerouac's. I guess it was a the mid 20th century New York lilt
Prophet
He really loved eggs
He loved what lay and was laid within them ;)
Does anyone know when/where this was recorded?
first time he ever read it aloud...
I walk, I walk, sooner or later North America will walk
No.
It's so uneven. Some lines are incredible, some are so almost pathetic.
Contrasting gritty with light-heartedness was also part of Ginsberg's style.
This poem sucks. Not one phase rhymed.
irony?
Nothing does these days.
this poet went to court to stand up for our freedom of speech so you can be a moron on a public forum. you’re welcome.
Ha ha ha, good one.
@@hurzlknurz122 who knows anymore. The ironic has become script for the next atrocity.