December 12, 2012 : Literary Kicks

Ravi Shankar: Sympathetic Strings

Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein December 12, 2012 1 Comment

I once had a chance to play a sitar for a few minutes. To a guitar player, a sitar feels like a crazy contraption, a transformed beast. There are strings and frets, but the frets are curved, arching up high from the neck so that the strings can be bent … Read the rest

Nutritious for a Thousand Years: Allen Ginsberg’s “Holy Soul Jelly Roll”

Eliot Katz December 12, 2012 6 Comments

For those who appreciate contemporary poetry, the re-release in digital format—by Ginsberg Recordings, a new collaborative partnership between The Allen Ginsberg Estate and the Esther Creative Group—of the most comprehensive of Allen Ginsberg’s recording projects, the 4-volume set, Holy Soul Jelly Roll (originally released as a box set 18 years … Read the rest

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Day: December 12, 2012

Ravi Shankar: Sympathetic Strings

Nutritious for a Thousand Years: Allen Ginsberg’s “Holy Soul Jelly Roll”

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