DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-102
title: 152. Alonze improv, [s.d.]; Eve magazine discussion, [1958]-09-19; Parker poetry reading, [s.d.]; Lipton & Foster discussion, [s.d.]

description: Tape 152, side 1, part A) Music: Jimmy Alonze, percussion, and board improvisation (including Paul Fredan?, tenor saxophone) together with Lawrence Lipton reading his poem "Hag written by a berserk peep" (0:02). ❧ Lawrence Lipton and Jane Morrison (wife of the editor of Road and Track Magazine) on the aims of Eve magazine, [1958?] September 19 (0:07) discussing articles for the magazine (Elaine, editor) on Morrison using a pseudonym for articles, fathers' protective instinct of their children, young children dating, the security of marriage, the threat of the bomb on birthrates and population growth, ethics, publicity, Vic Shapiro (publicist), Mae West (actress), Lipton as the man with the electric brain, political affiliation, Time magazine, Life magazine, editing, cartoons illustrating androcentrism, battle of the sexes, homosexuality, transvestism, lesbian, the dyke, Sigmund Freud (neurologist), Carl Jung (psychiatrist), Rice (sociologist), Alfred Adler (psychotherapist), Karen Horney (psychoanalyst), Harry Stack Sullivan (psychiatrist), male/female psyche imbalance, hormones, overmasculanized male, women in the armed forces, the Amazon warrior, muscular soviet women, female masculinity and pregnancy, television and radio shows on mental health, Pitirim Sorokin (sociologist), yang and yin balance, Confucianism, Taoism, Lao Tzu (philosopher), Eric Gutkind (philosopher), the broken state, matriarchy and herb gathering and home gardening in human evolution, Naomi Mitchison (novelist), Grayden McClelland (minister), conversation with a religious woman on sin, sex and love, feminist movement, Frederick Douglass (orator) support for women's rights. ❧ Radio communications (49:47) between a various air craft (Western, United) and air traffic control tower re navigation into and out of Los Angeles airport, California. ❧ Tape 152, side 2, part B) Lawrence Lipton and Joan (an English woman) and others discussing Eve magazine articles, faithful husbands, aphrodisiacs, sypathetic magic (0:02). ❧ Brad Parker reading his poetry: "Session" (3:15), "The age of the nervous age" (3:54), "Salty southern California" (4:40), "Same ol, same ol" (5:20), "One, two, three (5:55), "Hip haw, hip haw" (6:22). ❧ Lawrence Lipton discussion with Charles Foster (7:19): verbal boomerang, penance, suicide, Kenneth Rexroth (poet), rape, Charles Beaumont (author), love-death, Liebestod, homosexuality, analysis, the poet's eye, Wright's "third eye", Dylan Thomas (poet), self development, talent, mountain climbing, paranoid schizophrenia, doubt and faith, Satan, Carl Jung (psychiatrist), the poet is the world's remembrancer, suffering the world's guilt, metamorphosis, the journey to find the muse, self preservation, Carl Solomon (writer), Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl", the symbol of poetry, God, reading poetry, William Shakespeare's "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle", Lipton's poems "Metamorphosis" and "Rainbow at midnight", mental breakdown of Karen Horney (psychoanalyst), Dave Brubeck (jazz pianist), coming out of a drugged state, mescaline. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.