Exhibition Tour: Victor Coleman

Monday, September 8, 2014, 6-7pm

Part of The Politics and Poetics of Visibility

A program of “We Are Continually Exposed to the Flashbulb of Death”: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1953-1996)

Victor Coleman, a Toronto-based poet and founding editor of Coach House Press, will lead a tour of the exhibition “We Are Continually Exposed to the Flashbulb of Death”: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1953-1996), reflecting on the culture of the Beat Generation and his experiences within Toronto’s poetry and small press communities. Over the years, Coleman has broken bread and otherwise hung out with many of the figures found in Ginsberg’s photographs: Robert Creeley, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Diane di Prima, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, Anne Waldman, Basil Bunting, and Allen Ginsberg himself.