[Poetry readings by Jack Spicer, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners] /

Spicer reading recorded at KPFA radio station in Berkeley, California in 1963. Creeley reading recorded at the University of British Columbia in February 1962. The logistical details of the other readings are not available. Recorded on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.

Recording of five separate poetry readings by Jack Spicer, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg and John Wieners.

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1962-1963

Sound recording

PCR375A

Disc 1.Jack Spicer reading on KPFA:Ars poetica --first line of poem:[We find the body difficult to speak] --Orpheus after Eurydice --Orpheus' song to Apollo --An arcadia for Dick Brown --A heron for Mrs. Altrocchi --Sonnet for the beginning of winter --Babel 3 --Song for the great mother --Imaginary elegies --first line of poem:[All the way down past the skull] --In an African hut --first line of poem:[How they will be bored by my love for you, biographers] --first line of poem:[Every afternoon in Granada] --Friday, the 13th --Afternoon.Robert Creeley reading (track 6):Le fou --A song --The rites --The rhyme --The innocence --The carnival --The immoral proposition --The operation --The conspiracy --I know a man --Wait for me --La noche --The whip --All that is lovely in men --Juggler's thought --A form of women --Ballad of the despairing husband --If you --The door --The hill --The awakening --For love. --Disc 2.Clayton Eshleman introduction:The house of Okumura, I-VIII, XI, XIII, XVI --Possession (6, from T'ai) --7 (What a night this is for Ed Iglehart) --8 (That these men were messengers) --The black hat --New Guinea: the leg --Hymn 5 --[Comments on Robert Duncan's Bending the bow]. --Disc 3.Clayton Eshleman reading:Sensing Duncan III --That I grew up then --Like the gentle hands of potato pickers --Enter August night --The lay of Phi Delta Pheta --Window vent meaning hole --Your presence gentle lioness. --Allen Ginsberg reading:City midnight junk strains. --John Wieners reading:Invitation au voyage II --Beauty never as mine --I'm attracted to you, forgetting --No one to dine with --Pride's a useful catalyst --In dream, my mother gave me a blue stone --Paul II --A poem for movie goers --A poem for record players --Why have you chosen a penis as an object of adoration --Whatever absence of pledge --Keep it.

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