Gordon Ball

Gordon Ball is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and editor of several books with Allen Ginsburg. His photos of the poet have been published widely, some at <gordonballgallery.com>. His films have shown in many venues, including the Museum of Modern Art and Anthology Film Archives. He's the author of '66 Frames, a volume of prose poems called Dark Music, East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsburg (Counterpoint) and in May On Tokyo's Edge: Gaijin Tales from Postwar Japan (Red Mountain). He teaches at Washington and Lee.

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Nobel Dylan

Gordon Ball  | 
Issue 66.2 Spring 2017

In the fall of 1996 I was one of at least half a dozen professors, U.S. & U.K., including poet Allen Ginsberg, who nominated Bob Dylan for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I persisted in doing so annually for a …