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from Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971, paperback due out this Fall from University of Minnesota Press.

From • @thisisthebeatgeneration William S Burroughs Outside His Room in Villla Moneria, Tangier, Morocco, 1961. Allen Ginsberg. #carlsolomon #garysnyder #allenginsberg #eileenkaufman #bobkaufman #jankerouac #joanhaverty #luciencarr #peterorlovsky #hettiejones #bobbielouisehawkins #nealcassady #annewaldman #jeangenet #joannekyger #michaelmclure #luciencarr #jackkerouac #williamburroughs #dianediprima #annewaldman #herberthuncke #carolyncassady #pattismith #williamburroughs #luannehenderson #ontheroad #salparadise #deanmoriarty #lawrenceferlinghetti #turnontuneindropout https://www.instagram.com/p/CixYcMCD21_yGhtydvLX2DT1EsD7XTlJIC-QNE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems - Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder and Peter Orlovsky, banks of the Ganges river, Rishikesh, India, February 1962. (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries) “Then we take another all nite train to the holy town of Rishikesh, at the foot of Himalays, where the Ganges enters the Gangetic plain – we stay at famous old Swami Shivananda (Shiva-lovebliss) his Ashram, an old wrestler looking bald man stretched out in a couch sick and dying and murmuring om every time some American lady comes up with big questions about dualism – actually a big famous holy man but now weak and can’t operate much tho he once founded hospitals and wrote 386 books (“I write with electric speed”) charlatan of mass-production international nirvana racket – but actually quite a calm holy old man – he gave us all envelopes with 5 rupees each present and a little book to me on “Raja Yoga for Americans” – How many of you are there? “4” I say as he passes supported by attendants – “4 that’s an auspicious number” he winks and goes away, I rather like him. Next day I asked, where can I get a Guru? And he smiles and touches his heart and says the only Guru is your own heart dearie or words to that effect and adds – you’ll know your Guru when you see him because you’ll love him, otherwise don’t bother. “ (Allen Ginsberg in letter to Jack Kerouac, May 11, 1962 from Essential Ginsberg, Ed Michael Schumacher) #rishikesh #india #ganges #garysnyder #peterorlovksy #jackkerouac #allenginsberg #joannekyger #shivananda #beatgeneration #writers #poets #poetry #poetrycommunity #theessentialginsberg (at Rishikesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CemTt2Or31-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Gary Snyder,  New York City, March 1991.  Immortalized as Japhy Ryder in Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, Allen early on wrote of him: Gary Snyder a bearded youth of 26, also from the Northwest, formerly a lumberjack and seaman, student of literature and anthropology who had lived with American Indians and taken the religious drug peyote with them, and who is now occupied in the study of Chinese and Japanese preparatory for the drunken silence of a Zen monastery in Japan.” Later writing: “he is one of the most virtuous, visionarily inspired as well as intellectually grounded American poets of this half century, a legend in his own lifetime..” (photo: Allen Ginsberg) #garysnyder #poet #zen #ecology #mountainsandriverswithoutend #poetrycommunity #instapoets #beatgeneration #dharmabums #jackkerouac (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOSuDnPJoO/?utm_medium=tumblr

And about half way through you can stop and watch Peter Whitehead’s hard to find WHOLLY COMMUNION, 33 minute film on legendary 1965 Royal Albert Hall Poetry Incarnation.

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