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When the party's over : an interview with Allen Ginsberg : photocopy of a corrected typescript signed.

BIB_ID
385905
Accession number
MA 8686.6
Display Date
Place not identified, 1979 March 2.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (18 pages), unbound ; 27.9 x 21.5 cm
Notes
A photocopy of a typed transcript of Tom Clark's interview with Allen Ginsberg about Ed Sanders' report on the incident at Naropa involving Chögyam Trungpa, W.S. Merwin, and Dana Naone. Ginsberg has added autograph corrections throughout the interview, however the interview went to print in Boulder Monthly (March 1979 issue) before Clark received Ginsberg's corrections.
"Allen Ginsberg was interviewed in his Mapleton Street apartment by Boulder Monthly in February, 1979. The subject of the interview was Ed Sanders' report on the Merwin incident. Present were several of Ginsberg's students and the poet, Ed Dorn, who asked three or four of the questions."
Interviewer: Tom Clark.
Signed and dated by Ginsberg at the top of the first page.
Part of a collection that includes an autograph letter signed "Stephen" to William [Merwin] and Dana [Naone] (MA 8686.1); a typed letter signed from Allen Ginsberg to Bill [Merwin] and Dana [Naone], with an autograph postscript signed by Peter Orlovsky (MA 8686.2); two autograph letters signed from Allen Ginsberg to Bill [Merwin] and Dana [Naone] (MA 8686.3-4); a photocopy of an autograph letter Allen Ginsberg sent to Tom Clark (MA 8686.5); and a photocopy of a typescript titled, "When the Party's Over: an Interview with Allen Ginsberg," with Ginsberg's corrections (MA 8686.6). Items are described in individual records; see MA 8686.1-6.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (34 cm)