James Tate: March 6, 1968

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The Poetry Center presents James Tate reading from The Lost Pilot and other works

Originally Recorded By
The Poetry Center
Location
Gallery Lounge, SFSC
Date
03/06/1968
Total Run Time
0:41:03
Contributor
Mark Linenthal
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  • Remarks on getting lost on the way to the reading (02:08)
  • "The Day Lost" (02:30)
  • Remarks on the texts he's reading from (03:51)
  • "Coming Down Cleveland Avenue" (04:02)
  • Remarks on "Reapers of the Water" (05:27)
  • "Reapers of the Water" (06:45)
  • "The Butcher with Nothing but Bones" (08:55)
  • Remarks on "Success Comes to Cal Creek" (09:55)
  • "Success Comes to Cal Creek" (10:30)
  • Remarks on "The End of the Line" (12:15)
  • "The End of the Line" (12:36)
  • Remarks on "The Flight" (13:27)
  • "The Flight" (13:57)
  • Further remarks on "The Flight" (15:10)
  • "Grace" (15:30)
  • "Uncle" (16:38)
  • Remarks on "Uncle" (16:49)
  • Remarks on "How the Friends Met" (18:22)
  • "How the Friends Met" (18:57)
  • Remarks on "The Loveliest Woman in Altoona, Iowa" (20:07)
  • "The Loveliest Woman in Altoona, Iowa" (20:27)
  • Remarks on resisting writing about poems or poetry (21:50)
  • Remarks on "When Kabir Died" (22:30)
  • "When Kabir Died" (22:55)
  • Remarks on "Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers" (23:45)
  • "Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers" (25:09)
  • Remarks on "Conjuring Roethke" (27:27)
  • "Conjuring Roethke" (28:25)
  • "The Coming out of Ourselves Party" (29:25)
  • "The Sisters of Charity" (31:28)
  • Remarks on reading 'lighter poems' (32:20)
  • "Cloud Marauder" (32:33)
  • Remarks he will close the reading with 'more serious' poems (33:12)
  • "Peddler" (33:24)
  • "Camping in the Valley" (35:08)
  • "Scenario for Revolutionaries" (36:48)
  • "Little Yellow Leaf" (38:50)

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