« Build a good name », rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. « Life is like a roller coaster, it is going to have beautiful moments but it is going to be real fucked up, too », she says.
The American singer, poet and photographer Patti Smith (b. 1946) is a living punk rock legend. In this video she gives advice to the young:
« Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it », Patti Smith says.
Patti Smith (b.1946) is an award-winning American punk rock musician, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential figure in the New York City punk rock scene with her debut album ‘Horses’ in 1975. Smith fuses rock and poetry in her work, and has been dubbed the ”punk poet laureate” as well as ”the godmother of punk.” In 2007 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2010 Rolling Stone magazine put her on the 47th place of their list of 100 Greatest Artists. Among her many albums are ’Horses’ (1975), ’Radio Ethiopia’ (1976), ’Easter’ (1978), ’Gone Again’ (1996) and ’Banga’ (2012). Smith is also the author of several books, including ’Woolgathering’ (1992), ’Just Kids’ (2010) – which won the National Book Award and describes her relationship to her lover and friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe – and ’M Train’ (2015).
Patti Smith was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival in August 2012 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Produced by: Honey Biba Beckerlee and Kamilla Bruus.
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
CHARLES PLYMELL ROSE DE L’APOCALYPSE / APOCALYPSE ROSE BILL NACE APOCALYPSE ROSE LENKA LENTE – 10 JANVIER 2016LIVRE + CD
EDITION BILINGUE / BILINGUAL EDITION
44 PAGES
10 X 15,5 CM
ISBN : 979-10-94601-02-0Publié pour la première fois en 1966 dans le City Lights Journal, ce poème électrique de Charles Plymell est ici présenté dans une édition française établie d’après la traduction de Jean-Marie Flémal. On trouvera aussi dans ce livre la version originale d’Apocalypse Rose et, sur le disque qui l’accompagne, la musique que sa lecture a inspirée à Bill Nace.
Écrivain, poète et éditeur, Charles Plymell est né dans le Kansas en 1935. Surnommé The original hipster, il a frayé à San Francisco avec la Beat Generation avant de partir faire le tour du monde. Il habite aujourd’hui Cherry Valley, où il anime les éditions du même nom.Musicien, artiste plastique et éditeur, Bill Nace fait notamment entendre sa guitare dans Body/Head, projet qu’il emmène avec Kim Gordon depuis 2011. De Northampton, il dirige le label discographique Open Mouth.
Le 15 octobre 1957, Allen Ginsberg et Peter Orlovsky se présentaient à l’accueil d’un hôtel sans nom situé 9, rue Gît-le-Cœur, à deux pas du Quartier Latin. Madame Rachou les reçut. Veuve depuis l’accident de voiture de son mari survenu un an auparavant, elle tenait un établissement miteux, notoirement infesté de rongeurs, mais qui quelques mois plus tôt avait accueilli un auteur en rupture de ban avec l’Amérique raciste : Chester Himes.
Depuis le rachat de cette pension de quarante-deux chambres en 1933, les époux Rachou n’avaient pas effectué de travaux. Au 9, rue Gît-le-cœur, le confort était spartiate. Le système électrique défectueux. Les toilettes à la turque situées sur le palier. Les fenêtres des chambres donnaient sur la cage d’escalier. Une seule baignoire disponible. Et encore. L’eau chaude n’y était dispensée que trois fois par semaine. Aussi, l’établissement comportait un bistrot. Le café y était servi contre quarante centimes. La nuit, elle, était facturée un dollar.
Madame Rachou n’était pas regardante sur les mœurs de ses pensionnaires, pas plus qu’elle n’était à cheval sur les dates du paiement. Une ardoise s’effaçait en échange d’un manuscrit original. Ou bien d’une toile. Car cette femme « sympathique » était une amie des arts. Des décennies plus tôt, alors qu’elle vivait en ménage à Giverny, elle avait travaillé au sein d’une pension par laquelle étaient passés Monet et Pissarro. Alors…
Alors Ginsberg et sa dégaine de prophète sur la paille ? Bienvenue! Bien sûr, parions qu’elle ignorait tout des attaques pour « obscénités » dont son pensionnaire avait précédemment fait l’objet, Madame Rachou. Comme elle ferma les yeux sur les « activités » et les mœurs de la clique beat qui rejoignit Ginsberg dans son hôtel, dès 1958. Parmi elle, William Burroughs, fraîchement débarqué de Tanger, encore marqué par sa plongée dans l’héroïne s’installe dans la chambre n°23 du 9, rue Gît-le-cœur un 16 janvier. C’est là qu’il termine Le Festin Nu.
Tandis qu’autour de lui, Greg Corso rédigeait The Bomb, que Ted Joans élaborait la fresque The Chick Who feels off a Rhino ; l’hôtel était le théâtre d’une formidable agitation artistique, mais aussi de mœurs particulières, Madame Rachou voyait au quotidien ses pensionnaires déguenillés écrire une étape de l’une des plus fiévreuses aventures artistiques du XXe siècle.
Avec : Catherine Marthely
A travers un entretien réalisé avec l’écrivain Gérard-Georges Lemaire
Ce docu-fiction retrace l’épopée du Beat Hôtel par la voix d’un témoin anonyme de ces années durant lesquelles les principales figures de la Beat Generation vécurent à Paris, et – pour certains – y créèrent plusieurs de leurs œuvres maîtresses.
Pour la quatrième année, Interzone Editions était à la manifestation littéraire En ces lieux… des livres, qui s’est tenu le 26 juillet à Loudun. Beau temps, quoi que frisquet le matin, jardin magnifique, hébergeuse charmante, ambiance sympa, rencontres intéressantes.
Woodstock, NY poets Andy Clausen and Pamela Twining hit the road, venturing off on a “Beat Revival Tour,” destination: San Francisco. Joining them is San Francisco poet A.D. Winans.
Andy Clausen was raised in Oakland California USA. He graduated from Bishop O’Dowd High School in 1961 and attended six colleges. After reading the poems of the characters in Kerouac’s books, he felt he’d found his life’s vocation and headlong began trying to be a Beat poet in 1965. He has traveled and read his poetry all over North America and the world. (New York, California, Alaska, Texas, Prague, Kathmandu, Amsterdam etc.) He has maintained a driven intrepid lifestyle and aspired to be a champion of the underdog. He has had many occupations studying humanity and earning a living. Clausen has written about his friendships with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Ray Bremser, Janine Pommy Vega, Peter Orlovsky, and many others of the Beat Generation.
He has lectured at universities, high schools, and art centers. Clausen has taught at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University. He was co-editor of, POEMS FOR THE NATION, with Allen Ginsberg and Eliot Katz (Seven Stories Press). He was an editor at LONG SHOT Magazine. Clausen wrote about Ray Bremser
and appears in Encyclopedia of Beat Literature (Kurt Hemmer, editor) Clausen has back packed around the world and has resided in over twenty states and provinces.
For twelve years AC conducted poetry workshops in the NY state prison system for Incision Arts. In 1999 Clausen began teaching poetry in the schools under the auspices of Teacher’s & Writers Collaborative. Andy now resides in Woodstock, NY, where he teaches, writes, and performs his work. He lived with Janine Pommy Vega the last 12 years of her life and celebrates The Annual Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival in Woodstock.
I was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the middle of the last century, to a melting pot American family with early settler roots, as well as a Native American connection that no one ever discussed. I was always a poet, my first efforts published only in elementary school journals, but my sonnet “Neveah”, written at 16, was honored with a scholarship to a six week poetry workshop in Washington DC. An early poem, “Rejoice! The Second Coming!” was performed at Regina High School in Hyattsville, MD, with orchestration and conducted by prominent Philippine composer, Rosendo E. Santos, professor of music at the Catholic University.
I left school to travel, raise children and live off-the-grid on an organic farm, always finding time to write, though I only started reading my work in public in 2010. During the 1990s, I attended Vassar College on a scholarship received from the Ford Foundation, using poetry as a voice for a Women’s Studies discipline. A long poem “The Rape of Humankind: a Conspiracy Theory”, after William Blake, was used as the subject of a Graduate thesis on Blake, at the request of the professor.
Most of the past years were spent “inhaling”, as it were. And in 2009, my children raised, my parents no longer in need of me, I began to read my work at Open Mics and was soon a Featured performer. My first chapbook, “i have been a river…” was published by Heyday Press in 2011, followed by “utopians & madmen”, DancinFool Press, in 2012 and “A Thousand Years of Wanting” by Shivastan Press in 2013. My work has also appeared in Big Scream #51 and Big Scream #52, Heyday Magazine, Vol 1, Issue 1 and Vol 1, Issue 3, and Napalm Health Spa 2013, the annual magazine of the Museum of American Poetics.
I have appeared with beat legends Andy Clausen and Antler, Jeff Poniewacz, Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Anne Waldman, George Wallace, and others on stages in Detroit, Milwaukee, Boulder, Denver and Ward CO, and in New York City, as well as Albany and my home of over 40 years, Woodstock, NY.
I am currently working on a long piece, a memoir in poetic form. I am also one of the organizers of the Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival, held annually in Woodstock at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.
A. D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University. He returned home from Panama in February 1958 to become part of the Beat and post-Beat era. He is the author of fifty books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. Major books include The Holy Grail: The Charles Bukowski Second Coming Revolution, North Beach Revisited, and This Land Is Not My Land, which won a 2006 PEN Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. Most recent books include The Wrong Side Of Town, Marking Time, Pigeon Feathers, Billie Holiday Me and the Blues, No Rooom For Buddha, and Love – Zero. In 2007 Presa Press published a book of his Selected Poems: The Other Side Of Broadway: Selected Poems 1995-2005. In late 2010, BOS Press published a 300-plus page of his Selected Poems.
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