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1. 1 media/high-volume.png 2019-08-03T19:31:36-07:00 Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e Tape 106, Side 1, Part A: Lawrence Lipton interviews Stuart Z. Perkoff on his development as a poet from "The Venice poems" to his current state […] 5 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). plain 2020-06-26T14:03:06-07:00 Lawrence Lipton Papers, USC Digital Library 1958 Perkoff, Stuart Z., 1930-1974, speaker; Perkoff, Stuart Z., 1930-1974, poet; Lipton, Lawrence, 1898-1975, speaker; Myer, Eva, speaker; Rios, Frank T., 1936-2018, poet; Rios, Frank T., 1936-2018, speaker; Reingold, Joy, poet; Reingold, Joy, speaker Bo Doub 59bddb0b27f7b3138b6b5c39e4cc435e9208ebad