DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-249
title: 106. Perkoff interview, reading poems; Lipton & Myer discussion on Beat, 1958?; Rios reading poems; Reingold reading poems

description: Tape 106, side 1, part A) Jazz (0:02). Lawrence Lipton interviews Stuart Z. Perkoff (0:07) on his development as a poet from "The Venice poems" to his current state, mentions "The naming poem", "Crucifixion poem", his time in Seattle speaking with Theodore Roethke (poet), the beat generation phenomenon, Allen Ginsberg (poet) who said "dig prosity", popularity as a poet, Suzan Blanchard (wife), reading William Blake's poetry, William Butler Yeats (poet), Ezra Pound (poet), Perkoff's "That curse", Majaleesy[?] (poet), the Kreely family language, Perkoff's "Three little short poems", Frankie (poet?), June Janson[?], the naming ritual in poetry, Perkoff's "A birthday poem, without any name, for the 19th of June, and she named the same", Sash "Alex", Perkoff reading Perkoff's "Alex is Alex" (11:18), being in therapy and writing on the walls, the sane vs. the insane, the Venice West cafe, communicating through poetry, John Montgomery (poet). ❧ Tape 106, side 1, part B) Stuart Z. Perkoff his poetry: "The birds, on the beach" (19:48), "I didn't lift my eyes from the floor" (20:48), "Giant numbskull dingo" (22:19), "The gulls move through the air" (23:05). ❧ Tape 106, side 1, part C) Lawrence Lipton talking with Eva Myer (23:58) about the beat generation, nonconformity, clothing, the Brooks Brothers suit as uniform, Allen Ginsberg (poet), poetry, squares and cats, trickle-down economics vs. upward seepage by osmosis of culture, studio couches, the pad, "getting down", returning from the Korean War, the G.I. Bill's impact on jazz men, Jack Kerouac (writer), Friedrich Niezsche (writer), inflation, writers and poets and musicians interpret the beat generation, delinquency, Jimmy Dean, the beat generation age group is in their teens and twenties, but the spokesmen are older, Venice West (founded about 1954) consists of about 25 artists and writers and poets, Venice West vs. Greenwich Village, the Bohemians in San Francisco, ca. 1958. Jazz (44:20). ❧ Tape 106, side 1, part A) Jazz (0:02). Frank "Frankie" Rios (0:18) reading his "The steel lady" (0:30), "Home" from Topanga (1:09), "Crack out, a poem for Grace" from Topanga (2:32), "Woodland Labor Corporation" (3:32), "Sound session, to Charlie Parker" (4:21), "Together" (5:36), "Social suppresion" (6:19), "Night open and lamp light" (7:19), "Early morning flute playing children" (8:31), "Invitation acknowledged to the house of Vicki" (9:35), "Pushing stool sides on the rounded bends of circular sound" (10:36), "Accused" (11:42). ❧ Tape 106, side 1, part B) Joy Reingold reading her "Cancel the cage" (12:53), "Leisure in a glance" (13:18), "Compact, compressed" (14:08), "The poet bereft of audience speaks" (16:22), "Early waked by instinct" (17:44), "Man primitive is dead" (19:17), "Get out" (21:22), "A small street in a big town" (23:41), "Through lake and river fog" (25:18), "Soon it will be spring" (26:36), "Suddenly you hit the sky note" (27:26), "Equate this ache with love" (28:09), "It's a great thing to be a stranger in this world" (28:46), "It snows forever somewhere" (29:48), "Local foxes lope down honey rolling plains" (30:12), "Abbreviate eventless time" (30:46). Lawrence Lipton talking with Eva Myer (32:29) about an unidentified nonconformist, Charlie "Bird" Parker (musician), the Beat generation is the negrification of the American people, the negro will be the salvation of America because he is an outcast, on Lipton's poem "We are the orphaned young". Jazz (37:00). ❧ Tape 106, side 1, part C) Blank. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.