#ginsberg — Public Fediverse posts
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angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
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angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
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A loving, clear-eyed remembrance of #Ginsberg on his 100th bday. Favorite line (one of) "Garbo of my Karma." Favorite #poems:"Kaddish" & "A Supermarket in California."
“America when will we end the human war?” he asks in a short poem included in Howl. “Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.” That last line, even seventy years later, even after the seeming complete commodification of all dissent under the reign of King Algorithm, still reads as shocking, as liberatory."
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A loving, clear-eyed remembrance of #Ginsberg on his 100th bday. Favorite line (one of) "Garbo of my Karma." Favorite #poems:"Kaddish" & "A Supermarket in California."
“America when will we end the human war?” he asks in a short poem included in Howl. “Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.” That last line, even seventy years later, even after the seeming complete commodification of all dissent under the reign of King Algorithm, still reads as shocking, as liberatory."
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America this is quite serious.
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America this is quite serious.
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#Ginsberg stands on the stone steps above the #Ganges (in #Varanasi), watching the funeral pyres burn one after another. The air is thick with woodsmoke, sparks drifting upward like fireflies blown by the river wind. He notices how close the mourners stand to the flames, how practical and unceremonial the workers are as they tend the fires, adding logs, turning the bodies. He’s struck by the mingled smell—sweet, oily, acrid—and how it settles on his skin.
He keeps staring at the shape of a body half-revealed through the fire, the curved spine visible, the skull blackening. The workers prod at the pyre with long bamboo poles, coaxing it to burn evenly. A foot slips out of the woodpile and curls as it chars, and he’s transfixed by how familiar and ordinary the body looks even as it’s turning to smoke.
The river moves past, carrying little bits of ash. A dog noses the ground behind him. Someone beside him murmurs a prayer; someone else just watches silently. He realizes the families accept this transformation as simply part of the world, without horror—death turning to light, to heat, to dust.
Ginsberg feels a mixture of wonder and unease, but also a kind of calm. He senses that in this place the boundary between life and death isn’t hidden—it's utterly public, happening all day in the open air. He feels the moment press on him: the fragility of the body, the mundane precision of the fire, and the surreal beauty of the smoke rising over the river.
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A Supermarket in California turns off the lights.
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A Supermarket in California With Grandpa
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I was doing some research on Allen Ginsberg and found this article, from the Berkeley Barb (1965), "Demonstration as Spectacle, as Example, as Communication."
https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PR/BB_1965_11_19.pdf
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I was doing some research on Allen Ginsberg and found this article, from the Berkeley Barb (1965), "Demonstration as Spectacle, as Example, as Communication."
https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PR/BB_1965_11_19.pdf
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Remember Walt Whitman
Heute in der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung - 31. Mai 1819: Der Dichter Walt Whitman wurde geboren. Whitman brachte 1855 seinen ersten und berühmtesten Gedichtband, Leaves of Grass, auf eigene Kosten raus. Er wurde wegen seiner Sinnlichkeit als obszön kritisiert. Während des Bürgerkriegs meldete er sich freiwillig in #Krankenhäusern, um Verwundete zu pflegen. Viele glauben aufgrund seiner Schriften, dass Whitman schwul oder bisexuell war, obwohl dies von einigen Historikern bestritten wird. Oscar# Wilde traf Whitman 1882 in den Vereinigten Staaten und sagte dem Aktivisten für #Homosexuellenrechte George Cecil #Ives, dass Whitmans sexuelle Orientierung außer Frage stehe: „Ich habe noch immer den Kuss von Walt Whitman auf meinen Lippen.“ Whitman wird von vielen als Amerikas erster und größter #ichter angesehen. Er inspirierte viele, die nach ihm kamen, darunter Ezra #Pound, Langston #Hughes, #Kerouac, #Ginsberg, F#erlinghetti, Gary #Snyder und June #Jordan.
Whitmans Engagement für #Solidarität inspirierte viele #Linke der späten 1800er und frühen 1900er Jahre, darunter Emma #Goldman und die #WW, die Kopien von Whitmans Gedichten in Form des Little Blue Book an ihre Mitglieder verteilte. Bartolomeo #Vanzetti, Elizabeth Gurley #Flynn und Ralph #Chaplin bezeichneten Whitman ebenfalls als ihre #Inspiration. Er inspirierte auch den kubanischen Dichter und Revolutionär José #Martí sowie Pablo #Neruda und Jorge Luis #Borges.
Via: trueten.de
Quelle: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114603241424442651 @MikeDunnAuthor #Literatur #Anarchismus #LBTQIA
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"America this is quite serious." Allen Ginsberg, "America" 1956.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f
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Tariffs in A Supermarket in California
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It's #WorldPoetryDay. What poem would you recommend that we read? Mine is Allen Ginsberg's, "A Supermarket in California." Here's a few lines & a link to the whole poem:
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california -
It's #WorldPoetryDay. What poem would you recommend that we read? Mine is Allen Ginsberg's, "A Supermarket in California." Here's a few lines & a link to the whole poem:
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california -
It's #WorldPoetryDay. What poem would you recommend that we read? Mine is Allen Ginsberg's, "A Supermarket in California." Here's a few lines & a link to the whole poem:
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california -
It's #WorldPoetryDay. What poem would you recommend that we read? Mine is Allen Ginsberg's, "A Supermarket in California." Here's a few lines & a link to the whole poem:
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california -
Saw a lot of signs today at the #Tesla takedown. Speaking of signs and protest, I'll be listening to and watching this iconic video with #Dylan and #Ginsberg.
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Saw a lot of signs today at the #Tesla takedown. Speaking of signs and protest, I'll be listening to and watching this iconic video with #Dylan and #Ginsberg.
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Saw a lot of signs today at the #Tesla takedown. Speaking of signs and protest, I'll be listening to and watching this iconic video with #Dylan and #Ginsberg.
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"I'm on the pavement
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Opening lines of Allen Ginsberg "America" (1956)
"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twentyseven cents January
17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don't feel good don't bother me."https://allpoetry.com/poem/8495155-America-by-Allen-Ginsberg
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Opening lines of Allen Ginsberg "America" (1956)
"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twentyseven cents January
17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don't feel good don't bother me."https://allpoetry.com/poem/8495155-America-by-Allen-Ginsberg
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Opening lines of Allen Ginsberg "America" (1956)
"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twentyseven cents January
17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don't feel good don't bother me."https://allpoetry.com/poem/8495155-America-by-Allen-Ginsberg
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I miss Steve Silberman's voice. In honor of him, today I will read and think about #Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
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I miss Steve Silberman's voice. In honor of him, today I will read and think about #Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
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I miss Steve Silberman's voice. In honor of him, today I will read and think about #Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
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I miss Steve Silberman's voice. In honor of him, today I will read and think about #Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
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June is #Alzheimer's and #Brain Health Awareness Month. After I wrote my #memoir with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, I was invited to write a column for the #WSJ -- Five Best Books on Grief. I chose #Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, #Morrison's Beloved, #Zauner's Crying in H Mart, Macdonald's H is for Hawk, and for good measure a poem, #Ginsberg's Kaddish. Here is my brief reflection on #Zauner. You are not alone in/with your #grief. #EndAlz
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June is #Alzheimer's and #Brain Health Awareness Month. After I wrote my #memoir with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, I was invited to write a column for the #WSJ -- Five Best Books on Grief. I chose #Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, #Morrison's Beloved, #Zauner's Crying in H Mart, Macdonald's H is for Hawk, and for good measure a poem, #Ginsberg's Kaddish. Here is my brief reflection on #Didion. You are not alone in/with your #grief. #EndAlz
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June is #Alzheimer's and #Brain Health Awareness Month. After I wrote my #memoir with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, I was invited to write a column for the #WSJ -- Five Best Books on Grief. I chose #Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, #Morrison's Beloved, #Zauner's Crying in H Mart, Macdonald's H is for Hawk, and for good measure a poem, #Ginsberg's Kaddish. Here is my brief reflection on #Didion. You are not alone in/with your #grief. #EndAlz
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Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Avant Garde Guest: Allen #Ginsberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBpoZBhvBa4 -
It was wonderful talking to and with Professor Gonzalez-Rivas's class about #Poe's poetry. We focused on "The Bells" and "Dream-Land," and the students were thoroughly engaged and their knowledge broad. Lots of other authors came up, including #Ginsberg, #Pynchon, and #morrison There seems to be a tradition -- a lovely one -- in Europe, and perhaps elsewhere (though not in the US) of giving speakers certificates like this.
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@doctormfo @appassionato @fladdle @bookstodon.
Here are a few that helped me: #Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking; #Ginsberg's #Kaddish; #Gabbard's A Life Beyond Reason.
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What #poem(s) do you turn to? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/19/readers-poems-help-hard-times/
Me? #Ginsberg's #Kaddish and #ASupermarketInCalifornia
#Dickinson "TheBrainIsWiderThanTheSky and #AfterGreatPainAFormalFeelingComes
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Happy Birthday #WaltWhitman from #AllenGinsberg! "What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon." From #Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California," written in #Berkeley, 1955. #litstudies
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Happy Birthday #WaltWhitman from #AllenGinsberg! "What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon." From #Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California," written in #Berkeley, 1955. #litstudies
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"O beautiful Garbo of my Karma." #Ginsberg #Kaddish. One of my favorite lines in one my favorite poems. An homage to Naomi Ginsberg, his #mother. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49313/kaddish
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wow, a deep dive into the wild history of 64 east 7th street in #nyc, including an unnamed cameo by barron bruchlos, the #peyote-selling objectivist who opens the first chapter of my book "heads," plus appearences by #yoko ono, allen #ginsberg, ed sanders, merry pranksters, patti smith, future max's owner mickey ruskin, & the rainbow family. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/nyregion/east-village-history-townhouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare via @wmclark
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On this #WorldPoetryDay, what #poem(s) will you be reading/rereading? Me? #Ginsberg and #Dickinson and others.
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Rarely seen photo of novelist William #Burroughs and poet Allen #Ginsberg on Halloween 1996 by Philip Heying. (Burroughs is not holding an iPhone, but a knife in a case.) Both men died within the year.
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#Poet Allen #Ginsberg with a broken leg, 1973. Photo by Tony Barnard. #beatgeneration