Continuing our National Poetry Month theme of recordings of poets reading their poems, here’s Allen Ginsberg reading “Ballad of the Skeletons,” with Paul McCartney accompanying him on the guitar.
RIP, Allen Ginsberg, who died on this day in 1997.
Today is the 15th anniversary of his death.
Ballad of the Skeletons
Allen Ginsberg with Paul McCartney
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