"A Voice of Rock as the sound of Prophesy": Discussing Allen Ginsberg’s New Jersey poetics and recording of the album “The Lion for real” with guitarist Marc Ribot

December 19th 2014Issued in 1989, the album “The Lion for Real” is the repository of seventeen poems composed by beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Following on a path initiated by Kenneth Rexroth or Lawrence Ferlinghetti to name but a few, Ginsberg set out to record his poems in spoken words or in Jacques...

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1. Verfasser: Aublet, Anna
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Veröffentlicht: IdeAs 2017
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Zusammenfassung:December 19th 2014Issued in 1989, the album “The Lion for Real” is the repository of seventeen poems composed by beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Following on a path initiated by Kenneth Rexroth or Lawrence Ferlinghetti to name but a few, Ginsberg set out to record his poems in spoken words or in Jacques Roubaud’s phrase, “American poetry recovers its lost orality [,] from Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creely.”(Roubaud, 20) On the album, Ginsberg refrained from singing the lyrics the way he used to, for...