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Allen Ginsberg 03/23/1981

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Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing the work of William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac and Alfred Korzybski. Topics include Kerouac's "Cities of the red night," Burroughs's recommended readings for the Beats, Ginsberg reading from "Junkie," Burroughs on drugs and society, and the founding of the study of semantics. Part 1 of a 20 part series