Ginsberg reading his poems, courtesy of the gorgeous UbuWeb. Scroll down to October 25, 1956 and May 4, 1995. I read the poem in preparation for the movie, I confess. Obviously I had already come across selections (everybody has) but never actually read it top to bottom (many haven’t). Allen Ginsberg was Walt Whitman reincarnated, […]
Daily Archives: June 15th, 2013
T.S. Eliot, La terra desolata
Saturday, June 15, 2013
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”. T.S. Eliot legge The Waste Land. Qui il testo integrale. I frammenti con cui Eliot ha puntellato le proprie rovine provengono dalla letteratura europea, classica medioevale e moderna. Brandelli orfani e dispersi in quella Babele che a prima vista è il poema: una mezza dozzina di lingue, […]
