Lynn Lonidier and Bill Deemer: October 19, 1965

The Poetry Center presents Lynn Lonidier and Bill Deemer reading from their works.

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APA
Location
San Francisco
Date
10/19/1965
Total Run Time
00:51:26
Contributor
James Schevill
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Lynn Lonidier (30:56)

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Lynn Lonidier reads from her poetry, including work from Partita, Ordinary Oranges,/em>, and poems later collected in A Lesbian Estate.

  • James Schevill introduces Bill Deemer and Lynn Lonidier, saying that Lonidier will read first (00:06)
  • "The Ocean Has Made The" (01:38)
  • Remarks on her poetry collection, Partita (02:46)
  • "All Shot Up but Not Forgot: Part 1, Father Pathetic on a Hill" (02:56)
  • "All Shot Up but Not Forgot: Part 2, Seldom Come I" (4:31)
  • "All Shot Up but Not Forgot: Part 3, I'll Leave the Earth More Easily" (5:37)
  • "Funeral" (07:29)
  • "Sound of Strata Tearing" (08:20)
  • "Child You Are When" (09:10)
  • "At the Concert a Woman" (10:00)
  • "This Woman Told Me She" (10:40)
  • "I Write, A Painter Paints" (11:18)
  • "When the Beloved is Lost" (12:06)
  • "My Today Morris Graves" (12:54)
  • "Girl Whose Eyes Oppose Each Other" (14:33)
  • "Pastourelle" (15:39)
  • "I Left and My Heart in San Francisco" (16:54)
  • "New Descending" (18:12)
  • "The Flickering Movie Said: Part 1, Women Are Easy Lovers There's So Many of Us" (19:25)
  • "The Flickering Movie Said: Part 2, Sightless of Men" (20:12)
  • "The Flickering Movie Said: Part 3, Real" (20:35)
  • Remarks that she now will read from her book of pop poems, Ordinary Oranges (21:35)
  • "Gifted" (21:46)
  • "Surprise Package" (22:20)
  • "Vignette" (22:52)
  • "Brassiere Ad, Bra Makers Make" (23:18)
  • "Sunkist Orange Ad" (24:14)
  • Remarks on her time in Oroville, California teaching children poetry, shows the audience photographs, and begins reading poems by one of her young students named Patsy (24:34)
  • "I Drank Up the Necklace" (26:11)
  • "You Should Love the Butterflies and Baby Jesus" (26:58)
  • "My Ring" (27:22)
  • Remarks on Patsy's dislike for school and continues reading Patsy's poems (27:45)
  • "There Goes the Teacher" (27:55)
  • "I Ate a Schoolhouse" (28:31)
  • "The Janitor" (29:29)

Bill Deemer (00:20:30)

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Bill Deemer reads his poetry from his Auerhahn Press pamphlet, Poems (1964).

  • Untitled (00:10)
  • Comments on two poems entitled" Beverly" (01:30)
  • Beverly (01:37)
  • Beverly (02:29)
  • I Would Like to Correspond You to the World (03:01)
  • To My Father (03:51)
  • Nov. 23 (05:29)
  • Fragrance (07:03)
  • What Are the Words I've Known (08:04)
  • Diana (09:00)
  • Jan.26 (10:24)
  • A Different Kind of Daffodil (11:44)
  • Bill Bathurst (14:39)
  • The Dark Hours of Night Come Soft as Blankets (15:56)
  • Comments on the relationship between Keats' "To Sleep" and "Sonnet" (17:16)
  • "To sleep"{John Keats} (17:36)
  • Sonnet (18:50)

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