[Poetry reading at the West End Cafe in New York, N.Y., February 24, 1974] / Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz.

Recorded at the West End Cafe in New York City, N.Y. on February 24, 1974 by Allen De Loach on 120 minute Tracs sound cassette. Wieners performance probably recorded on March 24, 1974 at the West End Cafe. Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.

Poetry reading by Allen Ginsberg and Michael Horovitz also featured a mantra performance by Peter Orlovsky. Ginsberg sang poems from William Blake's The songs of innocence and of experience (1794), played harmonium, read his own early poems that were mostly published in the collections: Empty mirror, early poems (1961) and Gates of wrath: rhymed poems 1948-52 (1973). Ginsberg also sang his own poems from First blues (1975). Horovitz read and sang poems from Love poems (1971). The unidentified man who introduced Horovitz announced upcoming readings, one of which was a reading by John Wieners on March 24. On disc 2, track 7, the Ginsberg and Horovitz reading concludes and the recording cuts to a barely audible recording of a reading by Wieners. It is likely that the reading is the one that Wieners was scheduled to give at the West End Caf??. Most of the poems that Wieners read were from Behind the state capitol or Cincinnatti Pike (1975).

Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz.

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1974

Sound recording

INT114

Disc 1.Allen Ginsberg reading:The sick rose (William Blake) --Ah! Sun-flower (Blake) --Two sonnets --The eye altering alters all --On reading William Blake's "The sick rose" --Vision 1948 --Do we understand each other --A Western ballad --Sweet Levinsky --Stanzas: written at night in Radio City --The shrouded stranger --Pull my daisy --An Eastern ballad --Crash --An imaginary rose in a book. --Michael Horovitz reading:Epithalay-me-um-um-um --first line of poem:[That's love] --The lateral grave --Animal --Scream --A ghost of summer --The ballad of the nocturnal commune --Awesome in Vietnam. --Ginsberg reading:The school boy (Blake) --In society --The bricklayer's lunch hour --first line of poem:[I feel as if I am at a dead end] --first line of poem:[Tonite all is well] --Psalm I --After all, what else is there to say? --The trembling of the veil /Ginsberg --A meaningless institution --Marijuana notation --A crazy spiritual --A poem on America --The night-apple --After Gogol's dead souls --How come he got canned at the ribbon factory --The archetype poem --first line of poem:[I made love to myself] --Walking home at night --The shrouded stranger (1).Disc 2.Returning to the country after a brief visit --Jaweh and Allah battle--Curse and exorcism --Stay away from the white house --first line of poem:[O the ignorance bone's linked to the activity bone] --2 am dirty jersey blues. --When I woke up this morning /Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky --[mantra] /Ginsberg. --John Wieners reading poems from Behind the state capitol or Cincinnatti Pike of March 24, 1975.

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