John Wieners: June 21, 1959
The Poetry Center presents John Wieners reading from an unpublished manuscript and The Hotel Wentley Poems.
- Originally Recorded By
- The Poetry Center
- Location
- San Francisco
- Date
- 06/21/1959
- Total Run Time
- 00:14:52
- Rights
- ©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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- Remarks on "The Hotel Wentley Poems" (0:09)
- "Act #1" (0:15)
- "In the car with Freda" (1:23)
- "A poem for the place" (2:33)
- "Act #2, for Marlene Dietrich" (4:32)
- "A poem for the equinox" (5:32)
- "A poem for myself" (6:37)
- Remarks that the poems he has just just read were written "last week" and proposes that he reads from "The Hotel Wentley Poems" (7:44)
- Audio cuts out (8:09)
- "A poem for vipers" (8:14)
- "A poem for Painters" {Parts 1, 2, 5, 6} (9:04)
- "A poem for cocksuckers" (12:51)
- "A poem for the old man" (13:45)
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