The Familiar Presence

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Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970

Editors’ Note: The trial of the Chicago Conspiracy 7 is a trial of one consciousness by …

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Allen Ginsberg’s Wichita Vortex Sutra

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Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966

Face the Nation Thru Hickman’s rolling earth hills icy winter gray sky      bare trees lining the road South to Wichita you’re in the Pepsi Generation     Signum enroute Aiken Republican on the radio 60,000 Northvietnamese troops now infiltrated but over 250,000 South Vietnamese         armed men our Enemy— Not Hanoi our enemy Not China our enemy The Viet Cong! McNamara made a “bad guess” “Bad Guess?” chorused the Reporters. Yes, no more than a Bad Guess, in 1962 …

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Allen Ginsberg on Everything

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Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966

Copyright 1966 by the Los Angeles Free Press. Reprinted with permission. “All a man wants is …

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Ginsberg: The trees are our allies

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Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969

Editors’ Note: this interview with poet Allen Ginsberg took place at 10 a.m. on October 15 …

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The Maharishi and Me

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Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968

I saw Maharishi speak here January 21st and then went up to the Plaza Hotel that …

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Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

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Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997

Two interviews with the poet on life, death, sex, poetry, Kerouac, and meditation—the first from 1991, …

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