Bruce Boyd, Saul White and Stuart Z. Perkoff: March 30, 1958

The Poetry Center presents Bruce Boyd, Saul White, and Stuart Z. Perkoff reading from their poetry.

Originally Recorded By
The Poetry Center
Location
San Francisco
Date
03/30/1958
Total Run Time
01:25:55
Contributor
Ruth Witt-Diamant
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Bruce Boyd (00:39:28)

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Bruce Boyd reads from his poetry.

  • Ruth Witt-Diamant announces Bruce Boyd (0:03)
  • "Not to Enter the West" (0:11)
  • "Huibris" (1:05)
  • "Unintelligible title (Latin)" (1:51)
  • "Now Let Us Pray for Peace as Sincerely as We Can" (2:53)
  • "Poetical Predicament: Fragments of Homage to Wittgenstein" (4:44)
  • "...Flowerpot Sutra" (6:52)
  • "This is What the Watchbird Sings Who Perches in the Love Tree" (19:00)
  • "Petition" (20:00)
  • "This Is How the Wind Sings, Lover, on the Beach" (20:25)
  • "Summer Night Music" (21:24)
  • "Summer Aubade" (26:00)
  • "Water" (27:15)
  • "Blackbirds" (28:14)
  • "Song" (29:06)
  • "A Chorale of Minstrels" (30:00)
  • "New Year Poem, 1958" (31:12)
  • "Vespers" (32:40)
  • "Matins with Lauds, Which I Take to be Midnight" (33:58)
  • "Prime, Which I Take to be Six in the Morning" (35:18)
  • Sound cuts out during performance and returns with Ruth Witt-Diamant announcing Saul White (39:31)

Saul White (00:15:08)

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Saul White reads from his poetry.

  • Ruth Witt-Diamant announces "Saul White of Los Angeles reading his poems March 31 [sic], 1958" (00:00)
  • "Session" (00:12)
  • "One to Five" (01:07)
  • "Bang! bang! I shot you first..." (04:26)
  • "Outside the in-door..." (04:47)
  • "Hey! Hold on America..." (05:14)
  • "Very Profound" (06:04)
  • "The Van Gogh Show" (06:36)
  • "Moondog" (07:42)
  • "In the cool breeze back East..." (09:02)
  • "Right of Passage, or a Mindscape" (10:22)
  • "I feel the pale blue endless sea..." (12:59)
  • "The Walk To Door Takes Time" (14:02)

Stuart Perkoff (0:31:19)

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Stuart Perkoff reads from his poetry.

  • "The Clown" (0:07)
  • "For Dylan Thomas" (1:58)
  • Perkoff remarks on the structure of his poem "Round About Midnight" (2:26)
  • "Round About Midnight" (3:18)
  • "The Wind" (8:23)
  • "The Death of Arthur" (9:27)
  • Remarks on his poem "Voices Heard in Venice" and the unfinished series the poem comes from, The Venice Poems (12:43)
  • "Voices Heard in Venice" (12:58)
  • "The Barbarian from the North" for Allen Ginsberg (16:50)
  • "Think of your body as a bridge" (18:20)
  • "Gull wing dancing" (19:07)
  • "Trees are structures like ladders" (19:57)
  • "Bird" (20:31)
  • Static (23:26)
  • Remarks on "Feasts of Death, Feasts of Love" (23:32)
  • "Feasts of Death, Feasts of Love" (23:40)
  • "Feasts of Death, Feasts of Love" cuts out mid-line (31:18)

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