#NewDirections

mrteddybearmrteddybear
2025-12-26

J'aime profiter des fêtes pour me projeter un peu. Même si Temples II est en cours, j'ai envie d'étudier un virage en termes de sonorité pour après. Mais mes habitudes de vieux bouc reprennent toujours le dessus. Du coup je me suis dit, pourquoi ne pas s'inspirer de visuels ? Je vais donc commencer par là pour l'après.

2025-01-05

I checked out Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of #AllenGinsberg from the SF Public #Library (from the Park Branch in the Haight.) it is a selection of items from the Ginsberg papers at Stanford University. It is arranged chronologically and is a collection of photos, ephemera, letters, flyers. There are also some short essays such as a chapter titled 1965 about Ginsberg, #Dylan, #JerryRubin and the Hells Angels. There is also a four-page essay on the Chicago 1968 events with quotes from Jerry Rubin, #JimFouratt, and Ginsburg’s 1969 Playboy interview. Editor Pat Thomas is particularly interested in Ginsberg’s musical recordings (and has been involved in reissues of some of them) and closes the book with a chapter titled Music Recordings.

I like this sort of annotated ephemera book (see also #NewDirections publisher #JamesLaughlin’s “The Way It Wasn’t: From the Files of James Laughlin.”)

By the way, copies of my zine are in Ginsberg’s papers at Stanford but they didn’t make it into this book.

Book cover printed on brown cardboard with a monochrome red image of Allen Ginsberg’s bearded face with glasses and a Stars and Stripes top hat. Printed his hat are the words “Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, compiled and annotated by Pat Thomas. There are also some other words such as “the treble clef” which are just part of the book design and there are a couple library stickers on the corners of the book.

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