Michael S. Harper: December 3, 1969
Michael S. Harper reads poetry from his first book Dear John, Dear Coltrane among other work.
- Originally Recorded By
- APA
- Location
- A&I 109, San Francisco State University
- Date
- 12/03/1969
- Total Run Time
- 49:23
- Contributor
- Mark Linenthal
- 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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- Introduction by Mark Linenthal (00:01)
- Michael S. Harper remarks on radicalism and John Stewart (01:45)
- "Brother John" (3:06)
- "My Dimba" (7:29)
- Remarks on spending a year in Portland (9:25)
- "Ruth's Blues: Blue Ruth: America, History is Your Own Heartbeat" (10:36)
- "Love Medley: Patrice Cuchulain" (11:30)
- "Messages: Anesthesia: Blues: 12 to 8" (13:25)
- "The Nurse's Song" (14:35)
- "Klan Meeting" (16:02)
- "Ungie, Hi Ungie" (17:24)
- "History as Bandages: Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (19:04)
- "Coltrane is" (20:10)
- "On the Inside, Vision as wonder" (22:25)
- "Faculty Club in Portland" (23:20)
- "The Morse Recount" (26:59)
- "Black Study" (28:29)
- "American History" (29:23)
- "Death Watch" (31:05)
- "Reuben, Reuben" (32:48)
- "Another Season" (34:53)
- "Proposition 14" (36:04)
- "Molasses and the Three Witches" (37:16)
- "Aftermath" (38:25)
- "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" (39:05)
- "A Mother Speaks" (41:32)
- "For Paul Chambers, Mr. PC" (42:58)
- "Dead day for Malcolm" (44:02)
- "An Ode" (45:44)
- "Be Affront Blues" (46:55)
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