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Welcome to Venice West: Audio Recordings from the Lawrence Lipton PapersMain MenuIntroductionLawrence Lipton, the Beat Generation in Venice West, and the Lawrence Lipton papers at USC.Lipton and the Beat Generation PoetsLipton’s interviews with or about Beat poets, featuring Stuart Perkoff, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others.Lipton and VeniceThe Venice West Picture Essay, the Gas House, and the history of Venice.Lipton and JazzJazz Canto, Langston Hughes, and Lipton’s recordings of poetry jazz sessions.Audio CollectionBrowse all the Audio in this ExhibitProject Contributors
"How to listen to a poem" written and read by Lawrence Lipton
1media/high-volume.png2019-07-18T12:32:08-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eTape 158, Side 1, Part A: Lawrence Lipton introducing poems read at Venice West: "How to listen to a poem" (1:15) written and read by Lawrence Lipton […]6Tape 158, side 1, part A) Lawrence Lipton (0:06) introducing poems read at Venice West: "How to listen to a poem" (1:15) written and read by Lawrence Lipton; Bruce Boyd reading his poems "The noetical predicament" (2:57), "This is what the watchbird sings who perches in the love tree" (5:10), "In the meanwhile, nothing" (5:53) "How moonbird sings in sunrise land" (7:15); Stuart Z. Perkoff reading his poems "The clown" (14:59), "Letter to my younger brother" (16:55), "Bird" (18:04), "Alba" (20:45), "Flowers for Luis Bunuel" (22:22), "Peace" (24:41); Charles Foster reading his poems "Let us count among the customs of the dying islanders the gift of love" (25:55), "Parlor'" (28:32), "Preliminary report on rarum naturum" (30:04), "Memorial Day, 1957" (34:01); Saul White reading his poems "Seated here, I'll shuck a while" (36:45), untitled "Alone my devils sing" (37:22), "Moondog" (38:03), "Fluted fear" (38:58), "One to five" (39:31), "Very profound" (41:43); Lawrence Lipton reading his poems "Improvisation on a theme from Bird Parker" (42:32), "I was a poet for the FBI" (44:57), "The dreaming hands" (51:06), "End of the line" (53:17); Jazz music (1:03:24). Lenore Kandel poems.plain2020-06-26T14:14:07-07:00Bo Doub59bddb0b27f7b3138b6b5c39e4cc435e9208ebad