Category Archives: Allen Ginsberg

Richard Avedon: Murals & Portraits

Posted on May 28, 2020 by

Richard Avedon photographing SNCC demonstrators, March 1963 “Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Richard Avedon’s legendary photographic murals and related portraits. The exhibition has been drawn from the collection of and developed in collaboration with The Richard … Continue reading →

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Greenwich Village

Posted on May 3, 2020 by

The corner of St. Marks Place and Second Avenue in the East Village in March 1969. “… Greenwich Village again became important to the Bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation focused their energies there. Fleeing from what … Continue reading →

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Dog Soldiers – Robert Stone (1974)

Posted on May 1, 2020 by

“Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. The story features American journalist John Converse, a Vietnam correspondent during the war, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse’s wife Marge, and their involvement in a … Continue reading →

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Some/thing – Jerome Rothenberg/David Antin (1965–68)

Posted on April 25, 2020 by

“David Antin’s first separate book was in preparation at Hawk’s Well Press (Definitions was ultimately published by Caterpillar in 1967) when he joined with veteran poet and editor Jerome Rothenberg to create Some/thing. The first issue, published by Rothenberg’s Hawk’s … Continue reading →

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Chicago 1968: The Whole World Is Watching chronicles the chaos of the infamous DNC convention

Posted on April 7, 2020 by

“One afternoon a little more than 50 years ago, the photographer Michael Cooper wandered into the bar at the Chateau Marmont in LA and happened to run into a friend, the writer Terry Southern. Southern had time for just one … Continue reading →

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The Great Marijuana Hoax – Allen Ginsberg (1966)

Posted on March 19, 2020 by

“How much there is to be revealed about marijuana in this decade in America for the general public! The actual experience of the smoked herb has been clouded by a fog of dirty language perpetrated by a crowd of fakers … Continue reading →

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Evergreen Review Reader: 1957-1966

Posted on March 9, 2020 by

“A rich selection of articles, stories, book extracts, poems, plays, cartoons, and covers from the first decade of America’s premier avant-garde magazine of the 50’s and 60’s (Evergreen Review lasted until 1973, but its importance as an iconoclastic voice waned … Continue reading →

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