ALLEN VERBATIM, LECTURES ON POETRY, POLITICS, CONSCIOUSNESS, ALLEN GINSBERG
Edited by Gordon Ball, a close friend of Ginsberg’s who accompanied him on his speaking tour in the spring of 1971 and recorded the lectures.
Published by McGraw Hill in 1975. Dust-jacket shows some wear and has a tear on the back cover. The book itself is in quite good, FINE condition with little signs of wear, use or aging. Protected in archival mylar.
A thrilling series of hyper-present performative texts at once extremely linked to this time in America, but also with many underlying universalities.
Students! What other ways are there to expand your soul and get out of prison? Practice of any art, poetry, or music always, traditionally, was a way of getting out of the prison of conditioning by society. Practice any vision quest, as the American Indians, fasting, going into lonely places, seeking nature spirit… - Allen Ginsberg
Edited by Gordon Ball, a close friend of Ginsberg’s who accompanied him on his speaking tour in the spring of 1971 and recorded the lectures.
Published by McGraw Hill in 1975. Dust-jacket shows some wear and has a tear on the back cover. The book itself is in quite good, FINE condition with little signs of wear, use or aging. Protected in archival mylar.
A thrilling series of hyper-present performative texts at once extremely linked to this time in America, but also with many underlying universalities.
Students! What other ways are there to expand your soul and get out of prison? Practice of any art, poetry, or music always, traditionally, was a way of getting out of the prison of conditioning by society. Practice any vision quest, as the American Indians, fasting, going into lonely places, seeking nature spirit… - Allen Ginsberg
