Blog: Seamstress for the Band

"At a poetry conference attended by Howard Moss, an elderly poet just back from Nigeria was extolling the rare privilege of moving among a race of women proudly nude, whereupon the bard of the Beat generation rose from his seat, stepped up onto the dais and, without a word, without a smile, without a single depreciating gesture, Allen Ginsberg took off all his clothes." This is a recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his poem, "America" over Tom Waits's "Closing Time." Listen to it naked. MP3:  Allen Ginsberg-America posted by holly.

• Allen Ginsberg - America