
1975 Ted Berrigan - Heroin
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
From: Naropa University
Length: 00:02:29
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(00:02:10)
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(00:06:55)
From: Naropa University
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(00:01:52)
From: Naropa University
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From: Naropa University
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Piece Description
Influential New American Poet Ted Berrigan reads a poem describing his first experience with heroin in 1975. This piece is from Naropa University Archive's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics collection. Allen Ginsberg founded the Kerouac School, a writing program, in 1974, and for 30 years he brought a group of counter culture writers, artists and thinkers to Boulder for a Summer Program. Naropa's Audio Archive is digitizing 2000 hours of readings, lectures and panel discussions, several hundred hours of which is available for free at www.archive.org. Click through 'audio' to 'naropa' and browse. The piece has never been broadcast - you will be among the first to make this rare recording available to listeners.

