Independence: Allen Ginsberg’s “America” Interpreted
07.03.2010
07:13 pm
Topics:
History
Literature
Politics
Video
Tags:
Allen Ginsberg
Tom Waits
America
Beats
poetry
Azure Pepe Valencia
07:13 pm
Topics:
History
Literature
Politics
Video
Tags:
Allen Ginsberg
Tom Waits
America
Beats
poetry
Azure Pepe Valencia

My college friend Alex Marshall surfaced this excellent montage (done apparently by a filmmaker named Azure Pepe Valencia) of Ginsberg’s classic 1956 poem to the country, the ideal, the situation. Hurrah for independence!
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