The Allen Ginsberg Library

Allen Ginsberg quite deliberately left behind a substantial archive for future exploration so that those wishing to research his life and work would have ample fodder for their own interpretive experience. Sift through these materials at will and be sure to return — this is a growing repository.

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Wichita Vortex Sutra

February 1966

Allen writes: “In 1965 I ran into Bob Dylan in San Francisco and asked him for money to buy a tape machine. He gave me enough money to buy a Uher(in those days pretty much the state of the art for a small portable). I drove across country with the Uher tape ma...” [more...]

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