DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-209
title: 121. Lipton interview; Foster, Judd, Forsberg, Nordine reading poetry, [s.d.]

description: Tape 121, side 1, part A) Lawrence Lipton speaking with Charles Foster, Judd, and Carl Forsberg (0:02) with mentions of Dylan Thomas, Helen Parker. Unidentified male reading his "Geronimo" (2:37), unidentified male reading his "Screen images of Little Rock" (12:45). ❧ Tape 121, side 1, part B) Judd reading his from his Three Clinical Songs: "Jacob" (28:51), "I will not laugh at those times" (29:40), "This was a far and distant land" (30:02); Judd reading his "I sing of Edward" (30:33), "Triangle" (30:53), "To Willie Oberman" (31:28), "First rain" (31:53), "Intellect" (32:11); Judd reading his English translations of Claude Fournier (French Canadian poet) from the section called "Les tiges de l'amour" [The stalks of love] in his book Les armes à faim [The Weapons are Hungry]: "Approach the cliff" (33:33), "Upon the bearing trees" (34:06). ❧ Tape 121, side 1, part C) Charles Foster reading his "I don't want to write" (34:35), "Sunburst's blaze" (39:54), "The jellied gasoline flames from the white dove's breast" (43:31), "A heavy serape woven in white and blue wool" (48:34), "The red and swollen eye of a black rat" (49:11), "I went to see the barber one day" (50:41), "To go out in the desert" (52:39), "I am the shape of the music" (53:24), "I hate you all" (54:45), "Bees and flies buzz" (56:44), all with music. ❧ Tape 121, side 2, part A) Charles Foster reading his "Hell in midsummer" (0:06), "Things were all right until we got to the super highway" (9:43), "Why are there so many green things?" (15:41), "Let us consider the mandola and the concertina" (16:38), "Socco, the chimpanzee, has won all the quiz programs from 9 to 5" (17:47), "Ribbons of salt pour from the serration of wounds" (17:56), "The world's face is twisted up an orphan incense of ids" (18:09), "All presidents of the United States are mortal" (18:24), "Oh say can you see the tide across the grass face" (18:56), "Sirius, Antares,..." (19:32), "Polarization of brimstone" (19:46), "On the day once set aside for spitting at the king" (20:46), "The Bank of Manhattan turns its sanctum doors to chicken wampum" (21:03), "The days of our theater years spoke soliloquys" (21:14), "Simply a job of work no more" (21:24), "Sparks range Delaware Sandy Hook" (21:35), "Siva has two faces" (21:59), "There is at all times a reservoir of air in the lungs" (22:03), "Is the sprinkling of salt on cooked animal flesh a wave or a particle" (22:23), "Every act of creation involves its own destruction" (22:32), "A summertime blend of pitch angels" (22:41), "A paragraph is a universe" (23:17), "How many unicorn words, unspoken, make a blank book" (23:19), "How is your experiment going today" (23:38), "What game are the spoilsports playing" (23:42), "Has the king of wisdom drowned in the parlayed palons of Kent" (23:46), "A book is a palimpsest" (23:58), "Erasing is a sin" (24:02); "A gold skullcap covers the brain" (24:07), "Yellow leaves and grey moths" (24:12), "The flight of black birds" (24:19), "The papaya eats the blood of the shark" (24:30), "Small formed stones" (24:35), "My ex-wife's husband Mr. Frost" (24:48), "MacBeth is losing all his leaves today" (24:55), "The twitch of a single forked tongue" (25:06), "A pig is a pig" (25:12), "And there is no difference to be found" (25:22), "God must have loved metaphors" (25:33), "The eye of a man gouges" (26:02), "The relation of good and evil" (26:39). ❧ Tape 121, side 2, part B) Ken Nordine reads his "The junk man" (27:24) (partial), with music. ❧ Tape 121, side 2, part C) Blank. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.