“Io affermo che Tristan Tzara ha scoperto la parola dada l’8 febbraio 1916, alle 6 del pomeriggio. Ero lì coi miei 12 figli quando Tzara pronunciò per la prima volta questa parola, che suscitò in tutti noi un entusiasmo legittimo. Questo avvenne al Cafè de la Terrasse a Zurigo e io mi infilai un panino nella narice sinistra”.
Over ambient chatter of a rowdy East Village watering hole his father would have reveled in, the son of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady is sharing a quirky family secret. “My father named me after his friend Jack Kerouac and his friend Allen Ginsberg,” he says, rubbing his Hemingway-like white beard and speaking enthusiastically about his old man between puffs of a cigarette and sips of a strong cocktail. Read the rest of this entry ?
“Astonishing! Startling! Fantastic! Poems, music and something special to stagger everyones imagination…by poets braving the boxing match with those long-gone Beat ghosts — finding their way to our magnificent, underground stage with their inspiring legacies — as we lure them close with shouts from the bottom of our bohemian hearts– Read the rest of this entry ?