GINSBERG, ALLEN - Mantra

Edition of 64, with insert.

"From a one copy master; Allen Ginsberg, Maretta Greer and Peter Orlovsky sing mantras with bells and harmonium. Recorded at home in S.F. by Gary Snyder on February 22, 1967, a month after the Human Be-In took place." - Counter Culture Chronicles. 

Allen Ginsberg was a seminal member of the Beat Generation, Buddhist practitioner, open homosexual before his time, opponent of materialist/militarist society, supporter of free speech and individual liberty. Maretta Greer, known primarily as one of Ginsberg's 'girlfriends,' was actually "his mantra teacher, spiritual goad, and sometime live-in companion, when she wasn’t (as she was, a good deal of the time) wandering barefoot around India." Writer Peter Orlovsky was Ginsberg's companion and romantic partner for more than forty years. A "central figure in the Beat movement" in his own rite, Orlovosky taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, founded by Ginsberg and others in 1974, at the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colo. Kerouac called Mr. Orlovsky George in “The Dharma Bums” and Simon Darlovsky in “Desolation Angels.” (NYT)