1999 Michael Ondaatje - Elimination Dance
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
From: Naropa University
Length: 00:02:59
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Piece Description
Michael Ondaatje is a world reknowned poet and prose writer (author of "The English Patient"). This poem is funny and poignant. 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.
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