Thursday, June 12, 2008

FATHER DEATH BLUES

Allen Ginsberg sings a song that encapsulates everything the many querying souls I've met lately want to know about Buddhism. And what a great folk voice he had!


3 comments:

tom said...

i saw ginsberg sing this in Detroit
years and years ago

Bruce Hodder said...

Oh, I wish I had. I know he was imperfect as a poet, but he achieved more than most of us will manage in a lifetime. And he seems to have been immensely lovable.

tom said...

we were fortunate while in Detroit - we went to the Detroit Institute of Arts and saw Ginsberg then another time we went down and saw Gary Snyder - i also took a workshop at the DIA with Ron Padgett - that was great