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Inexplicably, this shot, taken on the road to Appleton, WI for a business meeting in May, puts me in mind of Allen Ginsberg's Howl:
... joy to
the memory of his innumerable lays of girls in empty lots & diner
backyards, moviehouses' rickety rows, on mountaintops in caves or
with gaunt waitresses in familiar roadside lonely petticoat upliftings
& especially secret gas-station solipsisms of johns, & hometown alleys
too ...
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by request, a transcription of a letter I received from Allen Ginsberg in 1989
hand-written on letterhead marked "Department of English, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York"
To Eliz Snyder
From Allen Ginsburg
6-14-89
Advice for any generation:
Read Shelley's "Ode to The West Wind"
Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"
Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot"
Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues" and "On The Road"
Gregory Corso's "Happy Birthday of Death" (New Directions 1960)
also learn how to do sitting practice of meditation, Zen Buddhist or Tibetan style
See "Beginner's Mind, Zen Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki (Weatherhill)
"Meditation in Action" by Chogyam Trungpa (Shambhala Press)
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For those who are interested, here are links to each of the books he mentioned, which are all currently available on Amazon:
Shelley's "Ode to The West Wind" - www.amazon.com/Ode-West-Wind-Other-Poems/dp/0486275582/re...
Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" - www.amazon.com/Blakes-Songs-Innocence-Experience-William/...
Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" - www.amazon.com/Idiot-Penguin-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/...
Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues" and "On The Road" - www.amazon.com/Mexico-City-Blues-242-Choruses/dp/08021306... and www.amazon.com/Road-Penguin-Great-Books-Century/dp/014028...
Gregory Corso's "Happy Birthday of Death" (New Directions 1960) - www.amazon.com/Happy-Birthday-Death-Gregory-Corso/dp/B000...
See "Beginner's Mind, Zen Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki (Weatherhill) - www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Shambhala-Library/dp/15...
"Meditation in Action" by Chogyam Trungpa (Shambhala Press) - www.amazon.com/Meditation-Shambhala-Library-Chogyam-Trung...
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Poet: Henry Stead
Live visuals: Guy Bingley
Special appearance: Allen Ginsberg
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I loved this poem from the first time I read it in 8th grade. I haven't looked at it in years but this morning I had a strange urge to revisit it.
TtV: Pentax Spotmatic SP500.
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