fuck yeah beatniks

"I hold the most archaic values on earth… the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:00:16 -0500

““I hold the most archaic values on earth… the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude. The love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.””

- Gary Snyder (via nirvikalpa)

Allen Ginsberg: Do you want to be loved?

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:23 -0500

Allen Ginsberg: Do you want to be loved?
William S. Burroughs: Not really.
William S. Burroughs: It depends by who or what.
William S. Burroughs: By my cat, certainly.

furtherfromage: Richard Brautigan and Michael McClure, 1966

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:00:27 -0500

furtherfromage:

Richard Brautigan and Michael McClure, 1966

patricialeesmith: patti smith and bob dylan on stage

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:37 -0500

patricialeesmith:

patti smith and bob dylan on stage

nirvikalpa: Gordon Ball, Portion of Kitchen & Hallway of...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:27 -0500

nirvikalpa:

Gordon Ball, Portion of Kitchen & Hallway of Allen Ginsberg’s E. 12th St. Apartment, 1987

"Everyone was enamored by William because he was famous before anybody else. And he was also famous..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:23 -0500

“Everyone was enamored by William because he was famous before anybody else. And he was also famous for all the wrong things. He was the first person who was famous for things you were supposed to hide. He was gay. He was a junkie. He didn’t look handsome. He shot his wife. He wrote poetry about assholes and heroin. He was not easy to like.”

- John Waters in William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

"I would characterize it as a spiritual liberation movement - like women’s lib, black lib,..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:36 -0500

“I would characterize it as a spiritual liberation movement - like women’s lib, black lib, spirit lib or spiritual lib - that began in the 40s, first took shape as a literary movement with a production of a number of notable utterances.”

- Allen Ginsberg on “What was the Beat generation?”

derrierelasalledebains: d.a. levy

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:37 -0500

derrierelasalledebains:

d.a. levy

"I went into the Maverick Bar In Farmington, New Mexico. And drank double shots of bourbon backed..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:25 -0500

“

I went into the Maverick Bar
In Farmington, New Mexico.
And drank double shots of bourbon
backed with beer.
My long hair was tucked up under a cap
I’d left the earring in the car.

Two cowboys did horseplay
by the pool tables,
A waitress asked us
where are you from?
a country-and-western band began to play
“We don’t smoke Marijuana in Muskokie”
And with the next song,
a couple began to dance.

They held each other like in High School dances
in the fifties;
I recalled when I worked in the woods
and the bars of Madras, Oregon.
That short-haired joy and roughness—
America—your stupidity.
I could almost love you again.

We left—onto the freeway shoulders—
under the tough old stars—
In the shadow of bluffs
I came back to myself,
To the real work, to
“What is to be done.”

”

- Gary Snyder, “I Went into the Maverick Bar”, Turtle Island (1974)

B is for Bad Poetry, Pamela August Russell

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:24 -0500

B is for Bad Poetry, Pamela August Russell

mianoti: William S. Burroughs * [+] (Ubu) The index for the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:00:39 -0500

mianoti:

William S. Burroughs * [+] (Ubu)

The index for the “Interzone” manuscript (click on the image to see details, it’s high-res)

from The 50th anniversary of William S. Burroughs’s novel ‘Naked Lunch ’* — a lot more on the site — thanks to

orderisdivine: Lew Welch, “Chicago Poem” (excerpt)

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:38 -0500

orderisdivine:

Lew Welch, “Chicago Poem” (excerpt)

derrierelasalledebains: Harold Norse Peter Orlovsky Allen...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:19 -0500

derrierelasalledebains:

Harold Norse

Peter Orlovsky

Allen Ginsberg

Neal Cassady & I went upstairs to attic at Millbrook estate...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:00:30 -0500

Neal Cassady & I went upstairs to attic at Millbrook estate Castalia Foundation big house where Timothy Leary and friends were then experimenting with DMT, a half hour trip - here Neal resting eyes closed with Millbrook lady friend (Susan Metzner, wife of Dr Ralph Metzner) in charge of holding the vile of liquid psychedelica. I’d driven upstate from New York City with Ken Kesey & Merry Pranksters in their day glo painted bus recently arrived East crosscountry from California, Neal at the wheel, Fall 1964.

c. Allen Ginsberg Estate

“Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:00:26 -0500

“Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.”

"So he drank himself to death. Which is only another way of living, of handling the pain and..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:36 -0500

“So he drank himself to death. Which is only another way of living, of handling the pain and foolishness of knowing that it’s all a dream, a great, baffling, silly emptiness, after all.”

- Allen Ginsberg, on Jack Kerouac (via un-soir)

"Ah America, so big, so sad, so black, you’re like the leafs of a dry summer that go crinkly ere..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:37 -0500

“Ah America, so big, so sad, so black, you’re like the leafs of a dry summer that go crinkly ere August found its end, you’re hopeless, everyone you look on you, there’s nothing but the dry drear hopelessness, the knowledge of impending death, the suffering of present life, lights of Christmas wont save you or anybody, any more you could put Christmas lights on a dead bush in August, at night, and make it look like something, what is this Christmas you profess, in this void? … in this nebulous cloud?”

- Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler (via you-are-jeff)

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:31 -0500

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:16 -0500

Peter Orlovsky on the Howrah Bridge that spans the Hooghly River...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:41 -0500

Peter Orlovsky on the Howrah Bridge that spans the Hooghly River (Ganges), Calcutta, Summer 1962. c. Allen Ginsberg Estate.