Allen Ginsberg serves up a lecture on revising autobiographical poems in this 1983 recording. Note: this is a class tape recording and the actual seminar does not begin until several minutes into the recording. "Could the rest of you please fucking do it," Ginsberg pleads on the tape, as he tries to get his Naropa students to do their homework. "You don't know what your losing, I'm not going to be here forever," Ginsberg says later as he curses out another late-arriving student. Autobiography in more ways than one. Eventually Ginsberg gets around to reading some classic poems in his theatrical style, to the sound of what sounds like a pen tapping.
Try writing with the intention of someone who wants to see you naked and has an ear for weird language, Ginsberg advises. "To be literal, I wrote 'Howl' with Kerouac in mind and with the specific intention that my father will never see this," he adds.
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