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Title	Expansive Poetics
Performer(s)	Ginsberg, Allen
Subject 1	Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Subject 2	Political poetry, Russian
Abstract	Allen Ginsberg class on Expansive Poetics. He opens by talking about Pushkin and reads his “The Prophet,” “Message to Syberia” and a couple others. He then moves to American `19th century authors and talks about Edgar Allen Poe and reads “The Bells” and “Anabelle Lee.” He then talks about rhythm and the spondee and goes into great details explaining and giving examples of different meters. He defines meter and foot. Then he moves into Herman Mellville and reads “Billy in the Darbies,” “The housetop a night piece” and “to Ned Nund.” He then closes the class by reading and discussing sections of Walt Whitmans “Song of Myself.” This is part of a long series
Content	Opens with Allen Ginsberg mumbling and shuffling through papers and then he mentions the last class and his reading of Shelley as precursor to expansive breath. He mentions a few other 19th century poets that have impacted him and his work. 2:20 Ginsberg then begins talking about Pushkin and gives a brief history of his life 3:50 Ginsberg begins reading “The Coach of Life” by Pushkin with commentary following 5:35 Ginsberg reads “The Prophet” by Pushkin with commentary following about where to find good translations by the author Deutch 8:22 Ginsberg then reads “Message to Syberia” written in 1827 by Pushkin 9:54 Ginsberg then tells an anecdotal story of being drunk in Russia 11:10 Ginsberg then reads the “Upas Tree” by Pushkin, this poem is a political parable with commentary following 13:30 Ginsberg then moves to America and talks about Edgar Allen Poe. He surveys the class to see who has read “The Bell” and proceeds to read the piece preempting with his initial exposure to the piece through his father 18:15 Ginsberg then talks about the rhythmic cadence of “The Bells” and challenges the students to try that rhythm - he then speaks about the importance of the structure of sound 21:12 “It was many and many a year ago” by Poe is read by Ginsberg “Anabelle Lee” with Ginsberg talking about the anapestic rhythm - he then goes to the chalkboard and describes the way to write with anapestic meter 27:02 student asks about the spondee rhythm - Ginsberg then talks to another student about the poetic foot and how it was originally a dance rhythm and proceeds to explain and provide examples of different rhythms 34:48 woman asks what is the difference between a foot and a beat - a beat is a stress and a foot is four syllables one stressed and three unstressed and then he gives examples 41:47 Ginsberg then moves onto Herman Melville as poet. He surveys the class to see if anyone has read his poetry. 44:23 “Billy in the Darbies” by Melville read by Ginsberg with commentary about the vowelic quality of his work and the power sound 47:08 July 1963, Mellville went on his roof listening to the riots and wrote “The Housetop a Night Piece” which is read by Ginsberg with some preempt commentary about the history and some of the meaning and students interrupt this reading with comments and questions 63:14 side one ends with Ginsberg still reading 63:19 cuts back to Ginsberg still reading with some commentary 65:00 Ginsberg then turns to “America” by Mellville and reads a section 66:28 Ginsberg reads “Recollections of young fellows” which are recounts of his time sailing with commentary from students and Ginsberg 71:16 Ginsberg reads “To Ned Bund” a poem by Mellville. with comments following and intermittent and also student comments 75:14 Ginsberg gives some history of Mellville 76:46 Ginsberg then moves on to Walt Whitman and 20th century expansiveness and mentions Fernando Pessoa 80:25 Ginsberg begins reading sections of Whitman's “Song of Myself” with intermittent commentary and questions regarding emotional reactions to Whitman's work 89:00 Ginsberg digresses into an anecdote about his old English teacher 90:04 Ginsberg goes back to “Song of Myself” and reads a section on epiphany and psychological statements about how to get out of a fix with Ginsberg giving commentary on the pronouns and referential discourse in the selections he is reading 93:19 Ginsberg digresses into a discussion of negative capability and the mind not having allegiance to thoughts 98:32 Ginsberg then moves into “Song of Myself” where Whitman is talking about his physical love and reads “I believe in you my soul...” 102:22 Ginsberg reads part 7 of “Song of Myself” 107:40 Ginsberg ends class and there is commentary from students 107:55 tape ends
Type of Event	lecture
Engineer's Notes	ok good sound
Date Recorded	1981-06-18
File Format	mp3
Performance Length	1:47:55
Rights Information	Copyright release given to Naropa University for the purposes of preservation, marketing and educational use. All other rights reserved to individual performers.
Department	Writing
Original Format	audio cassette
Format Description	normal unknown
Publisher	Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type	Sound
Language	eng
File Name	81P114.mp3

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