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Fried Shoes and Cooked Diamonds

“Costanzo Allione and an Italian film crew completed an hour-long color movie at Jack Kerouac School of Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado 1978 summer, a serious and spontaneously filmed account of conversations and teachings of home scenes of myself, poets Peter Orlovsky, William S Burroughs, Anne Waldman, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Diane di Prima, Timothy Leary, Daniel Ellsberg and Gregory Corso and Lama Chogyam Trungpa – including conversation, singing, nakedness, meditation, student Poets, and readings, & Nuclear Protest arrests at Rocky Flats Plutonium Bomb-trigger Facility nearby. Thanks” 

—Allen Ginsberg

Allen omits in this summary: Meredith Monk – and an extraordinary reading by the two “Nuyorican poets”, Miguel Pinero and Miguel Algarin – (and Fernanda Pivano, interviewing Corso, Leary, Baraka and Burroughs).

Costanzo Allione’s 1979 film of the ’78 “reunion” at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds, boasts Allen as the narrator.

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