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1995 Anne Waldman - Simulacrum (Not a Real Life, Cheap Imitation)

From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Length: 03:59

Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry Read the full description.

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From: Naropa University

Default-piece-image-1 This is a political piece by Anne Waldman, a lively performance from 1995 at Naropa University. Waldman is a legendary figure in New American Poetry, having run the poetry project at St. Marks Church for a decade before coming to Naropa at the request of Allen Ginsberg. She's currently in NYC and spends much of her time using poetry as an activist tool, trying to 'win the war against the imagination' that the US government is waging against its citizens. This piece is from Naropa University Archive's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics collection. Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg founded the Kerouac School, an avant-garde writing program, in 1974, and for 30 years they 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.

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This is a political piece by Anne Waldman, a lively performance from 1995 at Naropa University. Waldman is a legendary figure in New American Poetry, having run the poetry project at St. Marks Church for a decade before coming to Naropa at the request of Allen Ginsberg. She's currently in NYC and spends much of her time using poetry as an activist tool, trying to 'win the war against the imagination' that the US government is waging against its citizens. This piece is from Naropa University Archive's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics collection. Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg founded the Kerouac School, an avant-garde writing program, in 1974, and for 30 years they 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.