Jack Gilbert: September 25, 1962
The Poetry Center presents Jack Gilbert reading from Views of Jeopardy among other poems.
- Originally Recorded By
- APA
- Location
- SFSU
- Date
- 09/25/1962
- Total Run Time
- 00:40:47
- Contributor
- James Schevill
- 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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- James Schevill makes opening remarks on the Poetry Center's 9th year and the poetry and accomplishments of Jack Gilbert (00:02)
- Jack Gilbert makes introductory remarks (03:48)
- "And She Waiting" (04:18)
- Gilbert comments on Italian Rennaissance painter Paolo Uccello and his obsession with perspective. He dedicates "Perspective He Would Mutter Going to Bed" to Robert Duncan (05:23)
- "Perspective He Would Mutter Going to Bed" (06:22)
- Remarks on town of San Nicola in Southern Italian region of Puglia as physical background of next poem (08:01)
- "I'll Try to Explain About the Fear" (09:39)
- "Before Morning in Perugia" (11:35)
- "Lions" (12:38)
- Remarks on the challenge of writing love poems (13:39)
- "Professional Talk" (14:10)
- Comments on Kirk Douglas, Marlon Brando, and myths surrounding male cultural heroes (15:29)
- "The Abnormal is Not Courage" (18:36)
- "The Plundering of Circe" (21:18)
- Comments on various methods of making poems (22:54)
- "On Growing Old in San Francisco" (23:53)
- "Portrait Number Five: Against a New York Summer" (24:30)
- Comments on Pluto and Persephone (25:57)
- "A Family Quarrel in Winter" (26:30)
- Comments on Perugino, Perugia, and the lyric idealized background (27:34)
- "In Perugino We Have Sometime Seen Our Country" (28:23)
- Comments on four poems commissioned for the poetry festival and topics he deems worthy of poetry (29:25)
- "Singing in My Difficult Mountains" (30:21)
- Comments on his Don Giovanni sequence (34:04)
- "Don Giovanni on His Way to Hell I" (35:15)
- Comments on how whales produce ambergris (36:15)
- "Don Giovanni on His Way to Hell II" (37:21)
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