Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer: October 23, 1968

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

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Joanne Kyger (00:18:00)

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)

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)