Jack Spicer: April 11, 1957

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The Poetry Center presents Jack Spicer reading from his poetry.

Originally Recorded By
The Poetry Center
Location
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association, San Francisco
Date
04/11/1957
Total Run Time
00:39:23
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  • "Arachne was stuck with her shuttle..." (00:00)
  • "An Apocalypse for Three Voices" (00:44)
  • "Berkeley in Time of Plague" (04:04)
  • "The Dancing Ape" (04:50)
  • "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy" (05:43)
  • "Dardanella" (08:26)
  • "The Day Five Thousand Fish Died Along the Charles River" (09:14)
  • "Imaginary Elegies, I, II, III, IV" (09:52)
  • "We find the body difficult to speak..." (20:48)
  • "Troy Poem" (21:32)
  • "Sonnet for the Beginning of Winter" (22:14)
  • "A Night in Four Parts" (23:13)
  • "Midnight at Bare-Ass Beach" (25:30)
  • "An Arcadia for Dick Brown" (26:18)
  • "Orpheus After Eurydice" (30:50)
  • "Orpheus' Song to Apollo" (32:15)
  • "A Prayer for Private Graham Mackintosh on Halloween" (33:25)
  • "Song for the Great Mother" (34:42)
  • "Song for the Bird and Myself" (35:35)

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