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The Poetry of the 1970s

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:41:43 GMT

Been busy, of late, organizing this for the NPF.

Excitement Sisters

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:49:19 GMT

Lee Ann Brown - Crush (5'44"). • For Valentine's Day, a 2002 studio recording of a poem first published in 1993. Bonus track: To Bed (0'27"). • Listen to lots more Brown...

You Might As Well Know It

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:45:58 GMT

John Wieners - Elizabeth Taylor Is My Sister (3'15"). Recorded 6 January 1971 and later included on The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980. • I just saw the Grey...

Doubled, Split

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:12:38 GMT

Robert Creeley - Anger (4'06"). My colleague Ben Friedlander directed my attention to this alternate take on the poem featured yesterday, recorded a decade earlier on 22 July 1965 at the Berkeley Poetry Conference. • The whole set, not yet segmented into "singles," can be heard...

Convulsively Darkening

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:23:36 GMT

Robert Creeley - Anger (4'45"). This track, from another great resource for exploring Seventies phonotextuality, The World Record, is dated 22 October 1975. • I'm interested in hearing the poem "with" (if only metaphorically, since I know of no...

That They Are Unfit to Live

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:46:32 GMT

Ted Berrigan - From a List of Delusions of the Insane (What They are Afraid Of) (1:10). Recorded 11 August 1978 for broadcast on In the American Tree, hosted by Lyn Hejinian and Kit Robinson. • More...

The Obviousity

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Kevin Killian - Is It All Over My Face? (6'30"). Recorded at the Queering Language reading in Philadelphia on 24 March 2007 and archived at PennSound here, this track evokes spring 1978, Allen Ginsberg, Gay Sunshine magazine, and the...

Drive, He Said

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:30:18 GMT

Allen Ginsberg - Please Master (4'40"). Still sampling from Totally Corrupt, here's Ginsberg's April 1975 performance of a poem dated May 1968 in The Fall of America. • Tom Beckett, in a...

You Will See

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:30:33 GMT

Ericka Huggins - For a Woman (1'02"). The note accompanying this track on Totally Corrupt indicates that it was "recorded outside The Republican National Convention, Miami...

A Seizure of Talk

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:07:01 GMT

Robert Duncan - Despair in Being Tedious (4'20"). Recorded at San Francisco State University on 12 December 1972. • As his introductory remarks detail, Duncan composed this strangely self-lacerating, beautifully-sounded poem in 1972 as a sort of coda to and commentary upon the poems from 1949 that had made...

In the Making

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:43:47 GMT

Taylor Mead - I Was in a Drugstore (3'33"). Performed before a tickled audience at the New Year's Day, 1976, marathon reading at St. Mark's and released on Giorno Poetry System's Totally Corrupt album later that year. • Expect some more picks from this très seventies trove...

The Fragments Join

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:35:50 GMT

Muriel Rukeyser - The Poem as Mask (1'08"). The opening poem of Rukeyser's 1968 volume The Speed of Darkness revisits and revises her 1949 "masque" on the Orpheus myth even as it points forward to the landmark 1973 anthology, edited by Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, that would adopt as its anthem (and title) the defiant line "No more masks!" • For a sampling...

Out Laut

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:42:59 GMT

Jeremy Adler - Alphabox (3'49"). The opening track of the German-produced anthology Lautpoesie, available in its entirety here, is dated 1974 and features the London-born poet and German professor Jeremy Adler (

Look at Him, He's Got No Tongue

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:26:29 GMT

Claude Royet-Journoud - Excerpt (2'19") from La Notion d'Obstacle (1978), with translation (2'00") by Keith Waldrop. • From a reading at the Ear Inn on 3 November 1984. • Waldrop's voice is slightly but noticeably skewed to the treble register, the result I'm guessing of a tape...

Be Insatiable

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:56:17 GMT

Adrienne Rich - Section 2 of Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (0'54"). Rich read the title sequence of her 1963 volume in a set recorded at Cornell in 1985. All ten sections can be heard here (8'12"). • Section two is cited by Rich in her famous essay "When...

Speaking of 1977

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:11:34 GMT

Kit Robinson - Notes Toward a Phenomenology of Memory (3'26"). In both his 10 November 1999 reading at Buffalo and his UPenn reading the following day, Robinson included a meditation on "memoir" and "memory" triggered by his participation in the...

I Faded In It

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:06:18 GMT

William Bronk - The Ignorant Lust after Knowledge (1'18"). Recorded 13 October 1978. More Bronk on PennSound. • Bronk's phrasing...

I Never Used My Mind to Write This Poem

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:50:45 GMT

Bernadette Mayer - from Counterhatch (3'02"). A little later in the same 1978 Naropa class from which yesterday's clip was taken, Mayer reads and talks about her poem "Counterhatch." • The...

Nothing to Sell

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:06:00 GMT

Bernadette Mayer - Describing her early-70s installation art project "Memory" (4'42"). From a class offered at Naropa in 1978 and documented here. • The book that emerged from this project in 1976, though long out of print, is accessible via Craig Dworkin's...

This Is Her Gift It Goes Without Saying

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:55:06 GMT

Paul Dutton - No. 4 Blaze (1'24"). Dutton voices a bp Nichol translation of Robert Filliou's "No. 4 Blues" on 7 February 1979 as part of the Six Fillious extravaganza recently uploaded to...