Crazy Wisdom: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
(2008) 47 min
A history of Naropa University's unique Buddhist writing program, founded by Allen Ginsberg in 1974
A Film By Kate LinhardtFounded in 1974 by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Gregory Corso, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and many other well known poets, artists, and intellectuals, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University remains a unique haven for writers and spiritual seekers. “Crazy Wisdom” explores the program’s history, the integration of buddhism into the writing curriculum, and the inevitable changes the program has undergone over the last 35 years. It includes interviews with students and faculty members interspersed with archival audio material and footage from a documentary made about Naropa in 1978 entitled “Fried Shoes, Cooked Diamonds.”
Offering multiple perspectives from many fields of human inquiry that may move all of us toward a more integrated understanding of who we are as conscious beings.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Crazy Wisdom: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
I found this at Snag Films - interesting. When I was a poet back in the dark ages of my youth, I wanted to go to the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa for my MFA, while most of my peers wanted to go to the University of Iowa's MFA program, the elite of the elite programs for writers.
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