Homage to Allen Ginsberg. At Locanda del Mare the verses of a visionary poet of the Beat Generation

The meetings dedicated to great poetry continue through the collaboration between Casa della Poesia and La Locanda del Mare. The appointment scheduled for Thursday 12 July at 21.30:XNUMX pm will be a tribute to Allen Ginsberg and the beat-generation, with strictly free admission.
A visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg best embodies the ideals brought forward by the avant-gardists of the beat generation together with other exceptional literary figures such as Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
The materials presented at La Locanda del Mare by Sergio Iagulli, Raffaella Marzano and Giancarlo Cavallo are part of the gigantic sound and visual archive of Casa della Poesia, collected in more than 20 years of activity, an extraordinary heritage for our territory.
Among these, a series of readings by Allen Ginsberg, including “Howl”, the work that marked an era and created a new world, as well as a series of videos by Ginsberg and other protagonists of the beat-generation (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Janine Pommy Vega, Martin Matz) and collaborations with Paul McCarthy and Bob Dylan.
Sharp and desperate lines, those of Ginsberg in Howl. "I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, hungry naked hysterical, dragging themselves through black streets at dawn in search of angry drugs, hipsters with angel heads burning for the ancient celestial contact with the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night", he writes. They are the preamble to what will become the publishing event of the twentieth century, as well as the poem par excellence of the Beat Generation, a cultural movement that awakened America from its post-World War II torpor. Howl (Hawl) is a psychedelic ballad dedicated by the author to Carl Salomon, a friend met in the psychiatric institution where Ginsberg's mother was hospitalized, and is imbued with feelings of protest and rebellion against the authoritarianism of American society of that time, considered by the author to be a ferocious stepmother.
Finally, a truly small event will be the screening of the very rare film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, “Pull My Daisy” (1959, min. 26), in the Italian translation by Raffaella Marzano which restores poetry and philological accuracy to the text by Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
The film stars Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and Jack Kerouac, who, as author and voiceover, accompanies the entire film with a stunning reading of the text. Frank and Leslie's film is considered by many, along with Cassavetes' "Shadows", the reference film of New York underground cinema of the '50s.