charles baudelaire
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The Poetry Center presents a reading by Delmore Schwartz.
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The Poetry Center presents John Wieners, reading his poems from Ace of Pentacles (James F. Carr and Robert A. Wilson, 1964) and The Hotel Wentley Poems (The Auerhahn Press, 1958), and engaging in conversation with Robert Duncan. The poets appear in front of the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, then in the fire-scarred room of the former Hotel Wentley, on Polk Street, in which Wieners eight years before had written in one week his series of poems bearing the hotel's name. Wieners was in San Francisco to attend the Berkeley Poetry Conference at UC Berkeley this same month, and the film marks his first return to San Francisco after leaving for New York, then Boston, shortly after composing the poems of that first brief book.
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The Poetry Center presents Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, reading and in conversation. Martha Ronk reads poems on the subject of photography from her book Ocular Proof (Omnidawn Publishing, 2016) and newer works in manuscript. Paul Vangelisti reads poems from his book Border Music (Talisman House, 2016) and a longer work from the chapbook "Toodaloo" (Magra Books). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Jim Dunn and Neeli Cherkovski, reading and in conversation. Dunn reads his poems from Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2005), Soft Launch (Bootstrap/Pressed Wafer, 2008), and from his unpublished manuscript Dreaming in Tongues. Cherkovski reads poems including selections from his book Elegy For my Beat Generation (Lithic Press, 2018) and from the manuscript of his forthcoming book Hyper (due 2019 from Lithic Press). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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Philip Levine reads poems from his book, On the Edge
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The Poetry Center presents Stefan Hyner in a reading and talk entitled "This Other World Not Civilized." Hyner reads in reverse-chronology from his own poetry dated 2003–2015, all in manuscript. He also reads his translations from Classical Chinese poets Lao Tzu, T'ao Yuan-Ming and Li T'ai Po, and responds to questions and remarks from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents a memorial tribute to Stephen Rodefer (1940–2015), with reminiscences and poems, mostly by Rodefer, read by twenty Bay Area poets and friends. The event incorporates a portion from a Poetry Center video of Stephen Rodefer reading, May 8, 1975, at San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center presents W. H. Auden, delivering a lecture titled "On the Hero in Modern Poetry" before an audience at the newly opened San Francisco State College campus at its present Lake Merced location. Auden introduces his theme, and indicates what he considers the start of the period of modern artists, i.e., those (noting Yeats, Eliot, Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Schoenberg) born in the later decades of the 19th century, "before 1890," whose work began before World War I. He indicates what he means by "modern" (a period in his view still continuing) and by "the hero" (as the figure who is celebrated). He then reads and addresses variously W. B. Yeats' poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion," Robert Frost's "The Most of It," a passage from T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" ("We shall not cease from exploration...."), and D. H. Lawrence's "Baby Tortoise." The common "hero" of all these poets, he notes, in contrast to other world periods, is not a worldly success. He cites Yeats' poem "A Model for the Laureate" ("The Muse is mute when public men / Applaud a modern throne..."), Lawrence's "Worm Either Way," and William Empson's "Homage to the British Museum." He notes the ascendancy, at the end of World War I, of the unknown hero, "an individual about whose history nothing whatever is known, except that he gave his life," that this is the only kind of hero possible "in a technological civilization," and that "art cannot touch it." Note: the swift fade-out is as per the original recording.