Alice Notley and Bill Bathurst: February 18, 1976

The Poetry Center presents Alice Notley and Bill Bathurst, reading their poetry at San Francisco State University. Notley reads new work, from For Frank O'Hara's Birthday (Reality Street, 1976) and poems which would appear in Alice Ordered to Be Made (The Yellow Press, 1976), and otherwise would be collected decades later in her Early Works (edited by Nick Sturm, Fonograf Editions, 2023). Bathurst follows, reading a span of poems and prose reaching back to 1959, and as appearing in his publications including For Juletta (Cranium Press, 1967), Greystone Poems (1970, No. 11 of the limited edition Maya Quartos printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press), and How to Continue (Glide Publications, from Glide Memorial Church, 1973), among other work. Lewis MacAdams, director of The Poetry Center, introduces the poets, in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room of the César Chavez Student Center at SF State. 

 

Publisher
American Poetry Archives
Location
César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University
Date
1976-02-18
Event Run Time
00:58:51
Contributors
Lewis MacAdams
Gordon Craig
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Alice Notley (00:31:50)

Alice Notley reads what she indicates are recent poems: "Lake Havasu in Mind," "Pure Weather," "Heat Wave With Gravity Knife," "Clinical Thermometer Set With Moonstone," "In the Art Institute Library," "Translation of a Chinese Tribute to Jade,""But were it not so great a sin to despair...," "To Act in Harmony," "Elegy for My First Cousin," "For All the Songs I Sing," "Ode: Of Fire and Sky," "For My Mother," "Song Song," "To," "30th Birthday," "Endless Day," To WCW," "Time to Put the Flower Back on the Stem Again," "Ode," and ends with the longer poem, "Your Dailiness," (from For Frank O'Hara's Birthday).

Bill Bathurst (00:22:36)

Bill Bathurst reads "The Magician," "Time on My Hands with Billie Holiday," "For Lennie Bruce," "He who first lived as a cloud...," and "How to Continue," which he indicates is the title piece to his book of that name, which is "mostly prose," and is dedicated to a writer friend, David Sandberg, who committed suicide. He follows with the poems "Don't sell anything inside yourself...," "The Grim Awakening," "Burglary," "A Week of Nights Awake," "Hard to keep sane through the nightmare...," "Sky Blues," "The Road Forks Without Warning," "Bedrooms are the bells of fresh white flowers...," "Goodbye Muse," "Myself As Love," "I never knew love slipped out of time so often...," "Night of the Sonnet," "Sonnet," "For Julessa," "The Night in Sweet Slope," "The Public Defender," and "JuJu Lesson."

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