Geoffrey Young, Stephen Rodefer, Larry Goodell: May 8, 1975

The Poetry Center presents Geoffrey Young, Stephen Rodefer, and Larry Goodell, in that sequence, reading and, in Goodell's instance, performing their poetry at San Francisco State University. Young reads from In XX Arrondisements (The Figures, 1975). Rodefer reads from One or Two Love Poems from the White World (Duende, 1976) and other work. Goodell reads from The Staff of Ometeotl and the Bowl of Ometeotl (Truck Press, 1975), A Garden of Ourselves, The Face of Velma, and Dried Apricots (all from his own Duende Press). Kathleen Fraser makes the introductions for this early video-documented event by these three poet friends, visiting as she notes from New Mexico, in an augmented classroom (décor by Goodell) at SF State.

Publisher
American Poetry Archives
Location
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
Date
1975-05-08
Event Run Time
02:07:42
Contributors
Kathleen Fraser
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Geoffrey Young (00:34:30)

Geoffrey Young reads from his poetry: "Solid Object," "Area Code," "Warm Milk," "Chinois," "Quilting Bee," "The 97th Kentucky Derby," among other works.

Stephen Rodefer (00:35:32)

Stephen Rodefer reads from his poetry: "Interview with Robert Creeley," "For Shocks," "See the Perfect Stanza Beginning Tarzan," "Artist's Life," "New Mexico Lunch," "Blue Angel," "Phone Call to Beauty," "Poem," "Asinine," "Pastorale" (announced as "a poem by Paulette Darker"), "Romance," "Let Us Now #5," "After Lucretius," "Drastic Cocoa," "Did Cave Women Come?," "I Give Up Trying to Live Successfully," "Tout Suite," and "Your Veins Are Using Up the Redness of the World." 

Larry Goodell (00:48:41)

Larry Goodell performs a set of poems along with elaborate costume changes: he reads among other work "The Staff" and "The Bowl of Ometeotl," "Spinach Sprout," "Jesus Eats His Eats His Jesus, or Beware the Sailor Wave," "Poem of Ecstasy," and "The Dead God."

Midway through Goodell's performance, Stephen Rodefer reads two poems: "A Sunrise" and "In the Nursing School," as Goodell makes a costume-change.

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