[Poetry reading at the National Poetry Festival, Thomas Jefferson College, June 16, 1973] / Allen Ginsberg.

Recorded at the National Poetry Festival at Thomas Jefferson College in Allendale, Michigan on June 16, 1973 by Allen De Loach on a 120 Tracs sound cassette. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.

Allen Ginsberg's poetry reading was part of the National Poetry Festival which ran from June 14 to 24. Ginsberg mostly sang and read poems that would be published in First blues (1975) and Mind breaths: poems 1971-76 (1978), plus Mock-sestina: the conspiracy against Dr. Timothy Leary, which was only published as a broadside (May 1973) by Rallying Point Magazine. Ginsberg concluded by chanting a version of the "Mantra for purification of speech" that was interchanged with Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu. The man who introduced Ginsberg is unidentified.

Allen Ginsberg.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1973

Sound recording

INT046

Mantra for purification of speech --Conclusion to a long poem on these states --These states: to Miami presidential convention --Thoughts sitting breathing (early version) --Prajnaparamita Sutra --Who (early version) --What would you do if you lost it? --Everybody sing --Broken bone blues (early version) --Yes and it's hopeless (early version) --Under the world there's a lot of ass, a lot of cunt (early version) --Returning to the country for a brief visit (early version) --When I woke up this morning (early version) --Mock-sestina: the conspiracy against Dr. Timothy Leary --Mantra for purification of speech (interchanged with Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu.)

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