Michael McClure: October 10, 1973
The Poetry Center presents Michael McClure in a featured solo reading at the San Francisco Museum of Art (subsequently, SFMOMA) at its Van Ness Avenue location. McClure devotes his reading to his yet unpublished manuscript Fleas, "a book of childhood memories spontaneously composed on the typewriter in rhyme. They were written in the first three weeks of 1969." McClure reads, for what he says is the first time before an audience, "the last quarter of the book." The poems, he suggests, can be read as "a biological investigation of the realms of memory and the patterns in which memories are holographically stored, lighting up adjacent memories and leaping as fleas leap across the linoleum floor." McClure is introduced by Stan Rice, of the Creative Writing faculty at San Francisco State University.
Marginalia: Brief silent footage recorded prior to Michael McClure's reading, of the stage and audience coming into the Green Room at the San Francisco Museum of Art, with traces of audio from what appear to be Kathleen Fraser's opening remarks, is appended here at the conclusion of the video.
- Publisher
- American Poetry Archives
- Location
- San Francisco Museum of Art
- Date
- 1973-10-10
- Event Run Time
- 00:58:39
- Contributors
- Stan Rice
- Kathleen Fraser
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