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Collection of 3 autograph and 1 mimeographed form letter, with accompanying prose piece, all signed, to Ann Charters July 12, 1980 - [1982].

Title
Collection of 3 autograph and 1 mimeographed form letter, with accompanying prose piece, all signed, to Ann Charters July 12, 1980 - [1982].
Author
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Publication
Boulder, Colo., 1980-[1982]

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Additional Authors
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.
Description
6 leaves, + 1 envelope; approx. 10 - 28 cm
Summary
  • July 12, 1980, on Naropa Institute stationery, in black pen, 1 p., recommending persons to consult for a July 1981 Naropa Institute class to be co-taught by Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters, on Jack Kerouac and Russian Futurists (?); April 2, 1982, Naropa Institute mimeographed typescript form letter, 1 p., for On the Road Festival Program, citing Robert Creeley suggestion that speakers address books by Kerouac, with Ginsberg closing and signature also mimeographed); May 26, 1982, in black pen, 2 p. (1 leaf), comments on [Moses] “Asch Tribute” which accompanies letter, lack of money to pay speakers at “Kerouac Festival” [i.e., On the Road Festival] collapse of “Hammond Records Project” for Fixit Records, Ginsberg singing on punk band Clash album, recording session with Bob Dylan Feb. 24 at which “recorded enough for single record with him,” other music activities, varieties of Blues composition structures), 2 p. (1 leaf), with typed and autograph emended Asch tribute, May 26, 1982 , and with postmarked envelope; [1982?], detailed comments on a Charters article or paper (for Naropa Institute?) about On the Road, in black pen, on versos of blue paper broadsides for Gazell productions jazz recordings, 2 p. (2 leaves).
  • In Moses Asch tribute, Ginsberg praises generous and adventurous spirit of the Folkway Records founder as seen in his responses to Ginsberg’s suggestions, including Tibetan mantra chants and William Carlos Williams reading, and in contrast with John Hammond’s helplessness and Columbia and other record companies declining to issue “a decade’s well-wrought poetry songs (First Blues); Ginsberg “learned what blues I know from Folkways-Smith collections”; “In Age & culture notorious for exploitation & selfishness, Mr. Asch’s archiving energy has been objective work of American Bodhisattvahood.”
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Call Number
Berg Coll m.b. Ginsberg A.l.s. to Charters 1980
OCLC
908609617
Author
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Title
Collection of 3 autograph and 1 mimeographed form letter, with accompanying prose piece, all signed, to Ann Charters July 12, 1980 - [1982].
Imprint
Boulder, Colo., 1980-[1982]
Local Note
Letters are part of Beat collection of books, magazines, broadsides, photographs, ephemera, and manuscripts purchased from the Beat scholar Ann Charters on May 17, 1994.
Access
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Added Author
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.
Research Call Number
Berg Coll m.b. Ginsberg A.l.s. to Charters 1980
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