Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Ginsberg in Ireland 1993

Thornproof: A Beat poet in Dublin

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In a postcard dated October 1993 Allen Ginsberg wrote:
Got to Belfast “Peace Line” full of armored cars painted brown… Bono of U2 Rock Band came to Dublin reading … & recruited me to perform…songs for a big TV Blockbuster Special. Part of my Dublin fee was great grey tweed suit so now I look like an elder Irish gentleman crossing customs borders.

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