[lit-ideas] Re: early recording of 'Howl' discovered
- From: Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:00:29 -0800 (PST)
I'm still trying to figure out what's so special about Walt Whitman. Harold
Bloom raves about him. I sort of get it but can't get blown away by Whitman.
For some reason I have this idea that Alan Ginsberg was influenced by Whitman.
The only thing I know about Ginsberg is that he got hit by a bus. I cringe
when I read Ginsberg. What am I missing?
Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Reed library has discovered a tape of what is surely Ginsberg's
first recording of 'Howl' in a box in its special collections room.
Gary Snyder, a Reedie, was a friend of Ginsberg's, and they both read
(to very small audiences) on campus on February 13th and 14th, 1956.
A link to the reading will be on Reed's website on Friday, when the
online version of Reed magazine appears.
If Eric has a recording of Ginsberg reading a proto-version of 'Howl,'
in a friend's Lower East Side walk-up at 2:30 am sometime in 1955, I
don't want to hear about it.
http://web.reed.edu/news_center/press_releases/2007-2008/press_release3.html
Robert Paul
Dean of Armchair Research
Mutton College
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