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Allen verbatim : lectures on poetry, politics, consciousness / Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Gordon Ball.

Title
Allen verbatim : lectures on poetry, politics, consciousness / Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Gordon Ball.
Author
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Publication
New York : McGraw-Hill, 1974.

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  • Ball, Gordon
  • Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection hou
  • Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
xv, 269 p. : music.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Interviews
  • 1900-1999
  • American poetry > 20th century
  • Drug control > United States
  • Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews
  • Poetry > Psychological aspects
  • Political poetry > Authorship
  • Beats (Persons) > Interviews
  • Consciousness in literature
  • Beats (Persons)
  • United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Interviews
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed In (note)
  • Morgan, B.^ Ginsberg,
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • I. "Gnostic" consciousness. Identity gossip: Rap session : University of California at Davis, April 27, 1971 -- Eternity : Blake/poetry class: Kent State, April 7, 1971 -- Words and consciousness : Epistemology class: Wisconsin State University, Platteville, Wisconsin, April 13, 1971 -- II. Political opium. Addiction politics, 1922-1970 : Study of history & consequences of criminalization of opium addict population including political documentation of Narcotics Bureau's "War against Physicians" & police opposition to medical treatment of opium addiction, thus encouraging a Mafia-dominated black market cash nexus junk business thus creating epidemic addiction, with a cure for this social disease proposed --^
  • Crime in the streets caused by addiction politics : A little anthology of statistics relating breakdown of law & order & epidemic of crime in streets with consequent police-state hysteria to the original sin of denial of citizenly constitutional privacy & freedom in medical relations between doctor & patient in cases of opiate addiction -- Narcotics agents peddling drugs : Brief bibliography of news reports showing that narcotics agents, federal, state & local, the bulk of each group, are themselves involved in dope trafficking -- CIA involvement with opium traffic at its source -- III. Recent twentieth-century poetry. Advice to youth : Writing class: lounge talk: Kent State, April 5, 1971 / with Robert Duncan -- Early poetic community : Honors College: Kent State, April 7, 1971 / with Robert Duncan -- Kerouac : Fiction class: Kent State, April 6, 1971 -- Poetic breath and Pound's Usura : Modern poetry classes: University of Wyoming, Laramie, Whoming, April 26, 1971 --^
  • The death of Ezra Pound : Talk show: Webster College, Station KDNA, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1, 1972 -- IV. The scholars of war. War and peace: Vietnam and Kent State : War and Peace Class: Kent State, April 6, 1971 -- Myths associated with science : Class: University of California at Davis, April 27, 1971 -- Epilogue : Upstate New York, March 1973 -- "What would you do if you lost it?" -- William Blake tuned by Allen Ginsberg.
ISBN
0070232857
LCCN
^^^73020079^
OCLC
749967
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library