Docu-fiction - Beat Hôtel (rediffusion de l'émission du 8 avril 2010) Le 15 octobre 1957, Allen Ginsberg et Peter Orlovsky se présentaient à l’accueil d’un hôtel sans nom situé 9, rue Gît-le-Cœur, à deux pas du Quartier Latin.
Madame Rachou les reçoit. Veuve depuis l’accident de voiture de son mari survenu un an auparavant, elle tenait un établissement miteux, notoirement infesté de rongeurs, mais qui quelques mois plus tôt avait accueilli un auteur en rupture de ban avec l’Amérique raciste : Chester Himes.Depuis leur rachat de cette pension de quarante-deux chambres en 1933, les époux Rachou n’avaient pas effectué de travaux. Au 9, rue Gît-le-cœur, le confort était spartiate. Le système électrique défectueux. Les toilettes à la turque situées sur le palier. Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg was in many ways the beating heart of the Beat Generation.
The group's most vocal leader, he was ambitious and driven, and utterly convinced that he and his cohorts – William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac et al – would achieve "the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art," in contradiction to their insipid contemporaries. The Howl poet was the first to submit Kerouac's writing to publishers in the early 50s, and was largely responsible for the publication of Burrough's semi-autobiographical work, Junkie, in 1953. In the same year, while living in New York, he purchased a secondhand Kodak Retina camera and began the skillful visual documentation of his daily life and the companions that punctuated it, a pastime that would preoccupy him for the next 10 years – the definitive period of the Beat movement. Thereafter, however, the majority of these brilliantly intimate images lay untouched among Ginsberg's papers. "William S. "W.S. Allen Ginsberg Project - Links, Streaming Video & Audio.
Corso to AG PO & HH - 1960 — Herbert E. Huncke. Paris.
Cats: The Beat Generation’s Secret Love Affair. Created in conjunction with the San Francisco SPCA All photography by Rod Kilpatrick A lot of the cats at the San Francisco SPCA have had beat lives.
Howl by Allen Ginsberg. For Carl Solomon I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
Patti Smith et les Beats. Beatdom. 3 July (1952): Allen Ginsberg to Neal Cassady. In a letter to his friend and lover Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg discusses Kerouac’s new book, Visions of Cody (“a holy mess—it’s great all right but he did everything he could to fuck it up with a lot of meaningless bullshit”), as well as his own feelings of emptiness.
New York, NYJuly 3, 1952 Dear Neal: Whyn’t you answer my last letter? Too flip? I have your manuscript beginning of novel from Carl. I reread it incidentally. The main body, where you begin with yourself is very good and swings and is actually interesting to read (to a total objective outsider’s eyes). Jack’s book [Visions of Cody] arrived and it is a holy mess—it’s great all right but he did everything he could to fuck it up with a lot of meaningless bullshit I think, page after page of surrealist free association that don’t make sense to anybody except someone who has blown Jack.
I will stay on in N.Y. longer. I guess that’s true, too—I haven’t reread this—but I started off trying to say what I’m feeling. La Beat Generation au Centre Pompidou Metz. Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg - Contemporary Jewish Museum - Art, People, and Ideas, San Francisco, CA. Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg. Article Actualitté sur les 60 ans de City Lights Books. La petite boutique fut le refuge des grandes oeuvres dès les années 1950, et sa célèbre section « Banned Books » a offert l'asile à plus d'un ouvrage rejeté, méprisé ou caché du puritanisme américain.
City Lights, la librairie et maison d'édition de San Francisco, fête ses 60 ans et entend bien perpétuer promotion et diffusion d'une culture anticonformiste. Iburiedpaul, CC BY 2.0 « Abandonnez tout désespoir, vous qui entrez ici » annonce un panneau à l'entrée du City Lights Bookstore : depuis 60 ans, l'adresse est devenue celle des livres mal-aimés par le milieu de l'édition ou les autorités politiques. Article The Chronicle sur City Lights Books. City Lights At 50 Day One in Insight: An oral history of the early days of City Lights Books, from its founding in 1953, through the "Howl" trial and the Beat years.
Monday in Datebook: The oral history finds City Lights at the heart of the counterculture movement in the 60s and the Vietnam era. Tuesday in Datebook: City Lights in modern times. Wednesday in Datebook: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in the words of some of the writers and artists whose lives have been touched by City Lights. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who . . . burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like pop and everybody goes 'Aww! ' -- Jack Kerouac. City Lights Books. Blog : the city lights books. Blog : The Allen Ginsberg Project. Blog : Futur simple.