"beat! Il festival internazionale dei poeti" (2016)

Montegrotto, Italy: stella*nera (book, compilation, CD), 2016.
book: 8.875" x 8.375", 24 pages, Italian, stapled wraps with affixed ceramic disc and CD holder.
CD: single CD, 32 tracks.

beat! Il festival internazionale dei poeti / roma, 28 luglio 1980, a book and CD set about the International Poetry Festival in Rome on 28 July 1980. This was edited by Marco Pandin, produced in collaboration with Edizioni Bruno Alpini. Audio was recorded by Fernanda Pivano. Photographs by Allen Ginsberg.

The book includes multiple essays from the periodical a/rivista anarchica. 

A prospectus sheet for the book with an image of Burroughs shooting is included.

This copy was acquired directly from the publisher with the kind assistance of Walter Rovere.

Book Contents: 

• track listing for the CD
• Fernanda Pivano: quote
• Marco Pandin: introduction
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "a che serve la poesia" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: photograph of Gregory Corso at the festival
• Anne Waldman: "canto al plutonio" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: "trucco lo spazio vuoto" (poetry)
• Antler: "la fabbrica" (poetry)
• Joanna McClure: "memento" (poetry)
• Joanna McClure: "tassajara" (poetry)
• Joanna McClure: "poesia del lupo I" (poetry)
• Joanna McClure: "poesia del lupo II" (poetry)
• John Giorno: "mi sono rassegnato a stare qui" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: "da 'tantra spettrali'" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: "anticamera" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "l sorgere del sole" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "ho dato via el cielo" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "presentimento" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "tutto il casino, o quasi" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: "per lisa 2" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "ultime luci dall'oscurità" (prose/poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "la cavia inadeguata" (prose/poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "in ultima risorsa, la verità" (prose/poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky: "nobili verità del vangelo" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "ode al fallimento" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky: "blues di padre morte" (poetry)
• Peter Orlovsky: "do 'buchi del culo puliti e canzoni sorridenti di verdura'" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky: "canzone del lampone" (poetry)
• Gabriele Roveda: "poesia e movimento" (essay)
• Fernanda Pivano, et al: "beat utopia: a colloquio con fernanda pivano" 
  
• Stefano: "verso l'anarchia-poesia" (essay)
• unstated: "woodstock all-amatriciana" (essay)

CD Tracks: 

1. Anne Waldman: "Plutonium Poem" (1'43")
2. Anne Waldman: "Makeup on Empty Space" (2'19")
3. Antler [Brad Burdick]: "Factory" (2'21")
4. John Giorno: "I Resigned Myself to Being Here" (9'56")
5. Joanna McClure: "Memento" (0'59")
6. Joanna McClure: "Tassajara" (0'36")
7. Joanna McClure: "Wolf Poem I" (0'37")
8. Joanna McClure: "Wolf Poem II" (0'32")
9. Michael McClure: "Song" (0'31")
10. Michael McClure: "Ghost Tantras" (1'15")
11. Michael McClure: "Antichamber I" (1'16")
12. Michael McClure: "Antichamber II" (1'22")
13. Michael McClure: "Antichamber III" (0'23)
14. Michael McClure: "Antichamber IV" (0'42")
15. Michael McClure: "Antichamber V" (0'53")
16. Michael McClure: "Antichamber VI" (0'53")
17. Michael McClure: "Antichamber VII" (0'47")
18. Gregory Corso: "Sunrise" (1'05")
19. Gregory Corso: "I Gave Away the Sky" (0'49")
20. Gregory Corso: "Hunch" (0'35")
21. Gregory Corso: "The Whole Mess, Also" (1'22")
22. Gregory Corso: "For Lisa 2" (0'19")
23. William S. Burroughs: "Twilight's Last Gleamings" (2'30")
24. William S. Burroughs: "The Unworthy Vessel" (2'53")
25. William S. Burroughs: "Last Resort, the Truth" (3'17")
26. Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky: "Gospel Noble Truth" (5'07")
27. Allen Ginsberg: "Ode to Failure I" (1'04")
28. Allen Ginsberg: "Ode to Failure II" (0'40")
29. Allen Ginsberg: "Ode to Failure III" (0'44")
30. Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky: "Father Death Blues" (4'04")
31. Peter Orlovsky: "Clean Asshole Songs" (1'29")
32. Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky: "Lampoon Song" (3'37")