Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer: October 23, 1968

The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer reading their poems.

Location
San Francisco State University
Total Run Time
00:35:10
Originally Recorded By
The Poetry Center
Date
October 23, 1968
Contributor
Mark Linenthal
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Joanne Kyger (00:18:00)

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The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger reading from Places To Go and other poems.

  • Mark Linenthal introduces David Meltzer and Joanne Kyger (00:10)
  • Kyger remarks that she will read poems written this year, 1968 (2:12)
  • "By all means from this very room I will fly later..." (02:27)
  • "This day has its own confidence..." (03:26)
  • "Not for me it's not over..." (04:22)
  • Remarks that the series she just read are "trying to make a language inside a language" (05:43)
  • "I nevertheless, she I he, built a garden..." (06:14)
  • "Meandering" (07:09)
  • "From this moment" (08:15)
  • Introduces last piece, "DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF. A real drama of everyday life. In Six Parts" (09:08)
  • "DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF: Part I" (09:20)
  • "DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF: Part II" (11:01)
  • "DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF: Part III" (11:53)
  • "DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF: Part IV" (13:08)
  • "DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF: Part V" (15:40)
  • "DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF: Part VI" (16:33)

David Meltzer (00:17:10)

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The Poetry Center presents David Meltzer reading from a long poem, The Ten Lost Books of the Ten Lost Prophets.

  • Remarks on "The Ten Lost Books of the Ten Lost Prophets" (00:05)
  • Reads "Zohar/III/Beshalah/60a" which serves as an introduction to the long poem (00:18)
  • Remarks on the first section, "Return" (00:42)
  • "Return" : 1 (00:51)
  • "Return" : 2 (02:09)
  • "Return" : 3 (03:39)
  • "Return" : 4, Notebook Entry (05:10)
  • "Tree" : 1 (08:06)
  • "Tree" : 2 (08:50)
  • "Tree" : 3 (09:37)
  • Remarks on next section of the long poem dedicated to Kabbalistic poet, Abulafia (10:12)
  • "Abulafia" : 1 (11:32)
  • "Abulafia" : 2 (12:34)
  • "Abulafia" : 3 (13:14)
  • "Abulafia" : 4 (14:19)
  • Remark on last section of the long poem, also called "Return" (15:05)
  • "Return" (15:18)

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