DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-408
title: 146. Lipton & Murray Judeo-Christian ethic discussion, [s.d.]; Baker poetry reading, [after 1959?]

description: Tape 146, side 1) Lawrence Lipton discusses with Murray the Judeo-Christian ethic (0:02), mentions Dmitri Mendeleev (chemist), Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist), Niels Bohr (physicist), Albert Einstein (physicist). ❧ [Fragment of a radio show:] Billy, Art, and others (28:36) discussing a possible radio show with guests like Joe McConnell (fighter pilot), Alan Young (actor); speaking with Clara Morris (actress). ❧ Tape 146, side 2) Gerald Baker reading his poetry: "This tiny paradise" (0:47), "For MD" (1:33), "Pinpoint sharp" (1:56), "Screaming the highest note" (4:17), "Words" (4:46), "One candle" (5:04), "Now darkness" (5:34), "Poem for a duada[?] from the hills" (6:14), "A crux" (1958 November 13) (10:33); from Baker's Now I am Mad in Other Places (17:25): "True, this small machine is no longer a weapon" (17:37), "It is not necessary to believe that anything is true" (17:58), "Nim, I would swim with you" (18:19); "Poem for Bill Margolis" (18:55), "Master poses a question" (20:51), "Opium poem no. 2" (22:13), "Sustina which was never meant to be a sustina and thus never made it" (22:59); from Baker's Cassandrian Omens: "Whisper" (24:24), "If you examine the space between here" (25:03), "In this life which is the only one" (25:15), "For sale" (25:32), "For O. Sherman" (25:37), "For Ezra Pound" (26:35), "There is only one candle left" (27:19), "For Sutter Marin" (28:04), "Lightly small foams touching our feet" (28:37), "Near mountain hear gurgling" (29:04), "Long trip to get where you have to" (29:40), "Poem for Alan G." (29:52), "A couple of letters near the end of the alphabet" for V. (30:20), "Intent on beauty" (31:00), "A thing to contain the light" (31:18), "Seagulls imitating pigeons" (32:03), "We will build a beacon" (32:32), "1959" (32:56), "e.e." (32:56), "All these ashes" (33:30), "You can never forget that which you never know" (34:05), "Secret place which we shared" for V. (34:23), "When you paint in blood" (35:33), "Hysterical" (36:03), "An angel bearded came to us" to Peter Stevens (36:50), "Saint Peter" to Peter Stevens (37:20), "I will get a Christmas tree the day after Christmas" (38:05), "Where the bells are important" (38:14), "Death is" (39:06), "Omen came to me" (39:16), "Yes, I know the artist looks at things" (39:51), "You were so much warmer" (40:33), "Affirmation" (40:58), "I had intended to assert other words" (41:34), "Sitting near the grass" (42:16), "A morning poem" (43:47), "Ritual tattoo" (45:34). ❧ Discussion between Nettie Lipton[?], Gerald Baker and Lawrence Lipton (47:40) on poetry: mentions Eric Nord and Julie Meredith. ❧ Unidentified male reading poetry (50:42): from the Shaft of Golden Eyes "Miles lives" (50:49), "Thus spake Tathagata" (51:46), "Poem for Miles Davis" (52:11), "Eyes, oh eyes" (52:32), "The flowers are idiot children" (52:47), "Quote, thus sayeth the lord of hosts" (53:19), "Hypocracy" (53:39), "Only 15 minutes left" (54:00), "Yes, yes" (54:13), "Dot" (54:26), "I open my flesh" (54:47); from Glass Pebbles (54:57): "He must have a beautiful rock collection" (55:08), "For Ruthie" (55:58), "I have never seen Anna" (56:20), "Oh my god, am I a bastard, Ruthie" (56:29), "Leave only very emeritus" (56:45), "Yes, little old edge of the paper" (56:57), "In the time which is not time" (57:19), "I have a cat" (58:37), "All of you is contained in this flower" (58:55), "In that time which is the warm sun on my face" (59:02), "Movement in every direction" (59:57); "Erotic dots" (1:00:47), "Oh yes, you say you want to know" (1:01:14), "The wreckage of a small plane" (1:02:17), "Oh why do you insist on argument" (1:02:35), "Oh even the face of god" (1:02:48), "I have been blowing Bird" (1:03:52), "Everything" (1:04:00), "This is certainly a funky riff I blow today" (1:04:32), "Gas House poetry reading" (1:04:50), "I'm putting myself on today" (1:05:19), "You, articles, madmen" (1:05:24), "With, listen" (1:05:45), "Oh, I want to put my big juicy" (1:06:00), "This is what you asked for" (1:06:11), "What can I do now" (1:06:27), "I love to go into the bathroom" (1:06:41), "I rip the ugly flesh from my face" (1:06:49). ❧ Fragment of a radio or tv program discussing the Caryl Chessman case, mentions Miller, Levy, Mrs. Zamos. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.