The SUNFLOWER SKELETON project features lesser known poetry by Allen Ginsberg and brings together two works of especial interest as they form the bookends to his long career - SUNFLOWER SUTRA, written in 1955, one of his early startling poems and THE BALLAD OF THE AMERICAN SKELETON, written in 1995, is his last fully realized project; a collaboration with Paul McCartney and Philip Glass.
Allen Ginsberg was one of the founding fathers of a major literary movement popularly known as the Beat Generation and is considered one of the 20th century's most revolutionary and influential poets. He defies classification; poet, musician, songwriter, photographer, champion of human and civil rights, world traveler, spiritual seeker, political gadfly.
Thanks to the controversy surrounding his early extended work HOWL - which depicts the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity - Allen Ginsberg quickly became a galleon figure of the Beat Generation. His name and face was recognizable to millions who had never read so much as a single word of his poetry. Like Walt Whitman before him, the foundation of Ginsberg’s work was the notion that one’s individual thoughts and experiences resonated among the masses illustrating his idea that democracy begins with the raising of a single voice.
In 1948, author Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" to characterize an anti-conformist youth movement in New York; a literary movement that brought together a group of writers whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of economic materialism and sexual repression, the opposition to militarism, the acceptance of Eastern religions, the experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and offering explicit portrayals of the human condition.

by Allen Ginsberg
Featuring Derrick Jenkins & Florian Eisentraut
Host - Kirsten Schulze
Directed by Charles C. Urban
Assistant Director Enel Kerler

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