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Journals: Early Fifties-Early Sixties Allen Ginsberg. Journals Early Fifties-Early Sixties Edited by Gordon Ball ''I've kept jcurnal notebooks since late 40's (inspired by pocket notebooks recording the day's epiphanies in Kerouac·s hand preparing chrono­ logical truth novels.) My own records bloc-notes school copybook journals were kept as dream repository. poetry register & random thought-form bank­ Mind-strobe flashes on accidental corners at 3AM barrails. subway morns youth anonymous in Greenwich Village, & New Jersey backyards in early 1950's.-Conversation on Paterson Street with WC. Williams. or with subterranean poet musing over Lower East Side graveyard, first peyote notations, naive chance meeting Dylan Thomas , visions of genius stranger faces underground New York and Houston, long lonely notations tripped to Yucatan, up through Mexico dreams and snapshots back to visit Neal Cassady U.S.A., settle in North Beach San Francisco & Berkeley, first Haikus Zen influenced, fragments of America. Second section here typed covers Kaddish time composition & includes all sorts of unpublished journal poems & political ravings, first impressions of completed Naked Lunch, laugh gas reverie jotting, mystic death probes, pragmatic registration of early police state & CIA uncanny paranoias prophetic accurate for next decades­ Burroughsian dreams of Tibetan Buddhist Crazy Wisdom gurus, glimpses of Kerouac infused with Death Vine babbling celestial, G. Corso and P Orlovsky sitting on pillows home drinking tea. New Year's Eve Angel Bone nostalgias. subliminal political jissum dithyrambs hitting th'exquisite (continued from front flap) meetings with Eleanor Roosevelt in dream and real living rooms, messages from Blake, Bay of Pigs and young Nixon, junk reverie & St. Tropez funeral vomit-ships & eyes in Tangier Paris, Athens, Jerusalem Mombasa, dreams everywhere & real snapshots doodles life sketches notebook pen-pictures­ this section leads into already publick'd Indian Journals:· February 4, 1977 Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg and Gordon Ball, 1975. When Allen Ginsberg received the 1974 National Book Award, it marked the "official" acceptance of one of the most influential poets since the end of the war. "I would call that man a poet;' Henry Miller said, ''who is capable of profoundly altering the world:' Howl and Kaddish have certainly had a tremendous impact, not only on our literature but on the values of a generation. In addition, his published works also include Empty Mirror, The Fall of America, Planet News, and Reality Sandwiches. Gordon Ball, whose introduction and notes set the journal entries into their proper historical context, is also the editor of Allen Verbatim, a collection of informal talks by Ginsberg. Cover photo: Allen Ginsberg on NY.C. fire escape,© 1960. Photo by Mario Jorrin. Cover Design: Kenneth R. Deardoff Publ.ished by Grove Press, Inc. �!% ·w�:st Houston Street, New York, N.Y. 10014 JOURNALS EARLY FIFTIES EARLY SIXTIES SELE CTED MAJOR WOR KS BY AL LEN GINSBERG Howl and Other Poems (San Francisco: Ci ty Ligh ts, 1956) Empty Mirror (New York: To tem/ Corin th, 1961) Kaddish and Other Poems (San Francisco: Ci ty Ligh ts, 1961) The Yage Letters (wi th William S. Burroughs) (San Francisco: Ci ty Ligh ts, 196 3) Reality Sandwiches (San Francisco: Ci ty Ligh ts, 1963) Planet News (San Francisco: Ci ty Ligh ts, 1968) Indian Journals (San Francisco: Da ve Haselwood/ Ci ty Ligh ts, 1970) The Gates of Wrath (Bolinas, Ca lifornia: Grey Fox Press, 1972) The Fall of America (San Francisco: Ci ty Ligh ts, 1973) Allen Verbatim (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974) First Blues (New York: Full Co ur t Press, 1976) Mind Breaths (San Francisco: Ci ty Ligh ts , 1977) JOURNALS EARLY FIFTIES EARLY SIXTIES Allen Ginsberg EDITED BY GORDON BALL Grove Press, Inc., New Yo rk Copyright© 1977 by Allen Ginsberg All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, for any reason, by any means, including any method of photographic reproduction, without the permission of the publisher. First Edition 1977 First Printing 1977 ISBN: 0-394-41349-0 Grove Press ISBN: 0-8021-0134-8 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-54581 Designed by Stevan A. Baron Manufactured in the United States of America Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York GROVE PRESS, INC., 196 WEST HOUSTON STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10014 APPRECIATION Thanks be to the author of these journals fo r writing them and working generously and hospitably with our editing; to Fred Jordan, at Gro ve Press, fo r securing them and waiting patiently while they slowly became a single vo lume; and to Aileen Lee, fo r typing most of their earlier drafts. Thanks to Kathy Zobel fo r editing ad vi ce and fo r adding-through her artful eye-to my own appreciation of these pages; to Kenneth Lohf and Mary Bowling and associates at Butler Library, Columbia Uni ver­ sity, fo r pro viding access to and duplicating photographs; to my roommate, library scientist Richard Hinson, fo r much enduring helpful ­ ness-from fo rwarding mail while I was working with Allen, to patiently and generously ad vising whene ver asked, to dri ving me to the predawn train to get this ms. to New York on time. To C. T. Ludington fo r his interest and encouragement, and to Lewis Leary fo r similar helpfulness; Naropa Institute and its resources fo r permitting summers' long work; the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, its library and English Department; to Richard Elo vich, Allen's secretary in New York, fo r always co ming through in work assistance I was too fa r away from to do myself. To James Grauerholz, fo r pro viding needed background informa ­ tion on William S. Burroughs ; to William S. Burroughs, fo r responding helpfully to the brief questions I put to him dire ctly; to Gary Clemmons (who also assisted with resear ch) and Stuart Phillips, who came through bra vely in the closing hours of 1976 and 1977's snowy beginning with in valuable typing assistance. I also wish to thank Nancy J. Peters at City Lights fo r making available Allen's photograph of Paul Bowles; Jonas Mekas, fo r pro viding me with the script of Guns of the Trees; Carl Solomon; and Alan Ansen, fo r his charming letter. Thanks be to all, and to all other helpful friends and fa mily. G. B. Vll CONTENTS* Reader's Guide (Introduction) Xlll I. NEW YORK CITY, March 12-J une 30, 1952 1 "Notes After an Evening with William Carlos Williams" I First sight of Peyote, discussion with K (April 17) I "We're flowers to rocks" (first peyote experience) I Chance meeting with Dylan Thomas I Memorable Glimpses: Faces on the Street Qune 17) II. MEXICO AND RETURN TO U. S. December 31, 1953-July 1954 27 "Chichen Itza-Soliloquy" I Bill m Europe I Valladolid I Uxmal Qanuary 12-15, 1954) I Palenque I Finca Tacalapan de San Leandro Karena Shields (late February) I Salto de Agua IYa jalon I Return to Finca, April 16 (Good Friday) I "Remembrance Rock" I Salto ball and dawn parade (May 9) I Mexico City (May 16) I Patzcuaro (May 23) I The Mummies of Guanajuato IM exicali June 1954 crossing the border back to U.S. I The Dream June 27 I Room Dreams July 15-20 I "My first novel" I Reading January-July 1954 III. BERKELEY, Fall 1955-Spring 1956 89 First notation fo r poem "America" I"A lready Time fo r your Elegy, dear Natalie?" (poem) I "Haiku composed in the * This Table of Contents lists the longer entries of major interest. X Couteuts backya rd co ttage ..."1 "My God! I Uncle Ha rry " (poem) I Be rkeley Ap ril 26 Dream t IV. NEW YORK_CITY, Janua ry 1959-Ma rch19 61 97 "T ruth" (poem) I "Beau ty Kills" (poem) I Oc tobe r 14, 1959-"Laid ey es on aged fa t T. S. Elio t" I Though ts after firs t Gaslig ht re ading I "he [Kennedy] ha s a ho le in his back. Th ru which Dea th will en ter" I Huneke de Re ru m Na tura I Pa ris Dream wi th Rhino I Dream of T. S. Elio t-Claude I The Li terature Day Pa rade (d ream) I "Ci rcle of Blood" Room Dream I"Compla in tof the Boli vian Poli tical Prisone r abou t to Die" (d ream) I Dream Decembe r 28, 1959 I "S hot in the Back by a Fallen Leaf" (poem) I Janua ry 1, 1960: "Sunrise" (poem) I Psalm IV (poem) I "Man's Glo ry" (poem) I Augus t 2-112 St. Dream I Aya hu asca IX, X, XI I The Dream of Tibe t I"D ea r Grego ry" (le tte r) I Ke rouac on Aya huasca I Oc tobe r 8, 1960 Household Con versa ti on Ca rl Solomon I Fil thy Loft Drean '1 Oc tobe r 1960 I Dream of Naomi I "Poli tics on Opium" (poem) I "Subliminal" (poem) INo vembe r 1, 1960 (poem) IDe Dream ofRic ha rd Nixon I Dream-Eleano r Ro ose velt, Gene t, and Le Roi Jones I "Police" (poem on vi si t to Timo thy Lea ry's) I Bos ton Decembe r 1960 (poem) I "I saw th e sunflowe r Monkeys of th e Moon" (song, wi th Ke rouac) I Ci rcus dream on edge of precipice I Re ading Augus t 1960 I Dream of Ro beson and Maile r I "Massac huse tts is fu lla Quee rs" (poem by Ke rouac) I "The re is a Po rtuguese luxu ry line r" (poem) I Feb rua ry 5, 1961 Room Dream of Dr.
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