Death to Van Gogh's Ear - Allen Ginsberg (spoken word) 

love to the great poet and his soul

I died at: "... The virgin Allen Ginsberg was expelled from Columbia on the mere suspicion that he was getting laid"

"Now is the time for prophecy without death as a consequence, the universe will ultimately disappear"

only two minutes in and already my favorite by Ginsberg! so powerful..

I'm sitting, experiencing as The Romantic Lord Byron did, the Sublime of a thunderstorm- yesterday I listened to a contemporary comic who daily "rants" - though it's hot, I feel a chill- this is my first time hearing this poem of Allen's- volumes stolen by well meaning friends long ago- what I heard yesterday concerning cluster bombs and the typical hypocrisy of ANY politician, rents and food prices INSANE and in the halls of power only the janitors- summer break at at a 3 million cottage- how did we end up here- and how did Allen wandering a supermarket know- cry for the common man and woman- Namaste from Canada, where did my once brave, near innocent country go-?😊

The master of stream of consciousness poetry

Great, this is great

Godspeed You! Black Emperor must love this guy.

"Death to Van Gogh's Ear" was my first Ginsberg experience. I encountered it (in a slightly different form, of course) in *The Beats* by Seymour Krim.

Thank you so much for posting this

I love this version because it's different from the published one.

This poem is prophetic.But no one listened-then as now!

He really loved eggs

in the beginning his tone of voice was similar to Kerouac's. I guess it was a the mid 20th century New York lilt

Does anyone know when/where this was recorded?

first time he ever read it aloud...

I walk, I walk, sooner or later North America will walk

No.

It's so uneven. Some lines are incredible, some are so almost pathetic.

This poem sucks. Not one phase rhymed.