naturaldisastronaut:

poetsorg:

Allen Ginsberg: Suggested Reading List, for Naropa.

Allen Ginsberg’s suggested reading list. Get reading.

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woodysblues:

Gary Snyder resting in a café near Daitoku-ji temple, where he studied zen. Kyoto, Japan, 1963. Photo by Allen Ginsberg.

I thought, “What a strange thing is man… like in the Bible it says, Who knoweth the spirit of man that looketh upward? This poor kid ten years younger than I am is making me look like a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn’t got any money: he doesn’t need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this. And what gouty millionaire could get up this rock anyhow? It took us all day to climb.”
And I promised myself that I would begin a new life.
“All over the West, and the mountains in the East, and the desert, I’ll tramp with a rucksack and make it the pure way.”

(Jack Kerouac on Gary Snyder, The Dharma Bums)

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I myself had come to place value in forgetting as a way of getting through life. Lovers you couldn’t forget were dangerous. —  Minor Characters, Joyce Johnson (via ambivalentthought)

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American writer William Burroughs, living at the Hotel Du Vieux Paris, Rue Git, 1970

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wigit:

Herbert Huncke Reader

Thank you Ben Schafer!

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Violate me
in violet times
the vilest way that you know
Ruin me
Ravage me
utterly savage me
on me no mercy bestow

- Old Song, 1944

—  Violent Collaborations by Allen Ginsberg, from the collection, “Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems 1986-1992” (via iamapatientboy)

Greenwich Village poetry reading, 1959. Allen Ginsberg is sitting on the far left.

derrierelasalledebains:

Jack Kerouac