DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-71
title: 156. Lipton interview of Patchen; Interview of Lipton love-in of Easter Sunday, 1967

description: Tape 156, side 1, part A) Kenneth Patchen reading his poetry: "I got the fat poet into a corner" (0:02) with music. ❧ Tape 156, side 1, part B) Lawrence Lipton interview of Kenneth Patchen (music in background: jazz by George Lewis (clarinet)) (0:02): John the Baptist quote on the rich, the poet's role, the people's poet, animal vs. man, the responsible artist, poets, obfuscation of reality for self interest, prostitution of the artist, Randall Jerrold[?] (writer), John Barryman (poet), being heard, pornography, prostitutes, victimization, people in power control the critic, the "nigger indian", publishers, educators, rejection of the social lie, Peter Vansittart (writer), the role of the fool, ridicule of authority, being responsible in an irresponsible society, Stuart Perkoff (poet), love poems, Kenneth Rexroth (poet), Chamber Jazz Sextet, jazz as the expression of the negro people, jazz speaks the truth against something, the rot of society, impure criticism, jazz by white people is not as compelling, creators vs. adapters, the voice of the voiceless, REd Allen (musician), blues, poetry spoken with music, aural effect of reading poetry, rehearsing reading poetry, printing and recording poetry has no impact on inspiration of poets, writing poetry is a solitary act, Dylan Thomas, public vs. private poetry reading, poet as lecturer, poet as performer, William Blake (poet), Andre Kostelanitz (conductor), Ludwig van Beethoven (composer), the fiction of the appeal of poetry to a wider audience. ❧ Tape 156, side 2) Interview of Lawrence Lipton by an unidentified man and woman, for a radio program, after 1967 March (0:02): re a happening: Be-in (Love-in) on Easter Sunday, Central Park, New York city (attended by about 10,000 people) in the Summer of Love, 1967 March 26, the celebrations of Timothy Leary (psychologist), Lipton's book The Holy Barbarians, protests in the US, the Reformation, Buddism, American Indians, gathering of the tribes (pow wow), LSD as a sacrament or a sacrament trigger, the electronic age and the dissemination of social events, Judeo-Christian ethos, Algernon Swinburne (poet), new gods, a new mythos, mating, sickness and healing, dying, pagan life, hippies, tribal sexual freedom, Lipton's book The Erotic Revolution, police and riots, the Love-In was organized by the newspapers the Free Press and the Oracle, it was an opportunity for tribal communal experience, Marshall McLuhen (philosopher), tribes vs. collectives, confrontation vs. protest, trend toward paganism and pre-Christianity, Druids, tree worship, the beat life, disaffiliation from the current societal values, Gary Snyder (poet), Dave Osman, Indian religion and philosophy and ritual, Elisabeth Waldo (violinist), the religions of Aztecs and Mayans and Incas, Donovan (musician), Bob Dylan (singer), folk singing, rock and roll, dance, religious spectacle and ritual, the love feast and the Christian Agape, guilt over the genocide of the American Indians, Bertolt Brecht (poet), Egyption ank, oriental incense, fire worship candles, the grave of John F. Kennedy (president), American Indian clothing, Hindu and Buddhist clothing and objects, Burmese finger bells, Indian raga music, African conga drums, guitars, American Indian tepees, the mushroom, spring flowers, the pagan egg (Easter egg), fertility rite, seasonal rites, the Love-In as a spectacle vs. a rite, escape from society to the universal nothingness, Søren Kierkegaard, the dicotomies of life. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.