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Allen Ginsberg



Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
October 25, 1956
complete recording (24:41): MP3

1. A Supermarket in California (2:21)
2. In back of the real (0:44)
3. Introduction to Howl (2:43)
4. Howl I, II, III (18:27)
               ::5. Howl I (12:36)
               ::6. Howl II (3:30)
               ::7. Howl III ( 2:21)



Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
February 27, 1959
complete reading (38:55): MP3

1. Poem Rocket (4:25)
2. Message from Paris (0:44)
3. Squeal (1:21)
4. Wrote This Last Night (1:06)
5. The Lion for Real (4:14)
6. To Aunt Rose (2:27)
7. Ignu (6:50)
8. To Lindsay (0:41)
9. Kaddish (16:25)


Ginsberg singing William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, NYC, December 15, 1969
           (see also: PoemTalk Podcast #4 on Ginsberg's "The Garden of Love": MP3)



Reading at The Intersection, San Francisco, August, 1971
part one (48:21):
MP3
part two (13:58): MP3
      (please note: the end of the recording is cut off)
part three (10:03): MP3

Howl (excerpt): (10:06): MP3
      (please note: the end of this recording is cut off as well)

(recordings courtesy of Robert Creeley)


Recorded Live at the Knitting Factory, NYC
May 4, 1995
1. Howl - I, II, III (22:37)
2. Howl Epilogue (2:58)

May 5, 1995

1. Introduction to Kaddish (2:40)
2. Kaddish I (10:11)
3. Kaddish II (36:43)
4. Kaddish - Hymmnn (1:37)
5. Kaddish - III (1:46)
6. Kaddish - IV (2:17)
7. Kaddish - V (1:57)
8. William Blake's Nurse's Song (4:45)

May 6, 1995
1. Wichita Vortex Sutra I (3:14)
2. Wichita Vortex Sutra II (12:52)
3. Wichita Vortex Sutra III (5:51)
4. Wichita Vortex Sutra IV (5:41)

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Extra:
Allen Ginsberg and Margaret Mead discuss the orgin of the term "Beat": MP3
HUM BOM - Allen Ginsberg recorded by Chris Funkhouser, 22 April 1994, Hudson, New York

For Other Allen Ginsberg Recordings and Information:
Ginsberg Audio Page at Allen Ginsberg Trust
AllenGinsberg.Org

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author's estate. Used with the permission of the Allen Ginsberg Trust. © 2006 Estate of Allen Ginsberg. Distributed by PennSound.