Spontaneous Mind

by Ginsberg, Allen

• ISBN13: 9780060930820
• ISBN10: 0060930829
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. From the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and major events, allowing us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
Editor's Note	xix
INTERVIEWS
1950s
Interview by
Village Voice	3	(6)
Marc D. Schleifer
1960s
Interviews by
City Lights Journal	9	(8)
Ernie Barry
The Paris Review	17	(37)
Tom Clark
Barry Farrell	54	(13)
Freelance	67	(9)
Bob Elliott
Jr., Firing Line	76	(27)
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Fernanda Pivano	103	(21)
``Improvised poetics''	124	(35)
Michael Aldrich
Edward Kissam
Nancy Blecker
Playboy	159	(38)
Paul Carroll
(untitled)	197	(3)
Bill Prescott
Chicago Seven Trial Testimony	200	(45)
1970s
Interviews by
New York Quarterly	245	(14)
Mary Jane Fortunato
Lucille Medwick
Susan Rowe
Partisan Review	259	(14)
Alison Colbert
``The New Consciousness''	273	(30)
Yves Le Pellec
Gay Sunshine Interview	303	(40)
Allen Young
``The Death of Ezra Pound''	343	(12)
John Durham
from Towards a New American Poetics	355	(8)
Ekbert Faas
``Squawks Mid-Afternoon''	363	(14)
Michael Goodwin
Richard Hyatt
Ed Ward
New Age Journal	377	(21)
Peter Barry Chowka
``Buddhist Meditation and Poetic Spontaneity''	398	(23)
Paul Portuges
Guy Amirthanayagam
1980s
Interviews by
from Finding the Words	421	(12)
Nancy Bunge
Flipside Fanzine	433	(1)
Helen
Oui	434	(10)
Michael Schumacher
Steve Foehr	444	(8)
Simon Albury	452	(17)
Chronicles	469	(30)
John Lofton
Josef Jarab	499	(24)
1990s
Interviews by
Photo Metro	523	(9)
Thomas Gladysz
Clint Frakes	532	(14)
www.HotWired.com	546	(25)
Steve Silberman
Afterword	571	(6)
Acknowledgments	577	(6)
Biographical List	583	(13)
Permissions	596	(1)
Index	597