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
Kenneth Rexroth reading from Synder's book Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, "The late snow and lumber strike of the summer of fifty-four" and "For a far-out friend", Snyder's experiences in Japan or being out to sea, Jerome Rothenberg's book New Young Germ
1media/high-volume.png2019-07-18T12:32:08-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eTape 132, Side 2, Part B: Kenneth Rexroth speaking on books, 1955, KPFK radio re: Gary Snyder (poet), Phillip Whalen (poet), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poet), Michael McClure (poet), American journalism debauching literature and poetry [...]5ape 132, side 2, part B) Kenneth Rexroth speaking on books, KPFK radio (5:41, 39:50), re Gary Snyder (poet), Phillip Whalen (poet), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poet), Michael McClure (poet), American journalism debauching literature and poetry, the war between art and commercialism, agent provocateurs and stool pigeons, a beatnik is an artistic strike breaker, Rexroth reading from Synder's book Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems "The late snow and lumber strike of the summer of fifty-four" (11:19) and "For a far-out friend" (12:49), Snyder's experiences in Japan or being out to sea, Jerome Rothenberg's book New Young German Poets (The Pocket Poets Series Number 11), Alexander Koval (editor), Rexroth reading from Günter Grass' book Nana the Doll: Sketches from Her Daily Life [Aus dem Alltag der Puppe Nana] "The clock" [Die Uhr] (17:18) translated into English by Rothenberg [excerpts], Rexroth reading Hans Magnus Enzensberger's "The end of the owls" [Das Ende der Eulen] (20:28) translated into English by Rothernberg, Robert Duncan's Selected Poems (The Pocket Poets Series Number 10), advertises for a volunteer secretary, book acknowledgements, Europe, donation of Rexroth's files to the University of California Los Angeles, a fellowship, books on Negro life, paucity of Negros in the cultural life of San Francisco, segregation in Saint Louis, gambler who bought a house in Woodside and was hassled by the police, party at the home of a literary critic in Los Angeles at which were some mixed-race couples, how many Negros listen to KPFK?, Eliot Elisofon's and William Buller Fagg's book The Sculpture of Africa (Praeger), Francis L. Broderick's book W.E.G. Du Bois: Negro Leader in a Time of Crisis, Walter White (civil rights activist), Negro influence in Egyptian art, Marcus Garvey (political leader), Langston Hughes (poet), Frederick Douglass (social reformer), Fenton Johnson (writer), Jean Toomer (poet), George Frazier Miller (writer), Schuyler, William Stanley Braithwaite (drama critic), Alain Locke (writer), Sterling Brown (poet), Ralph Bunch (political scientist), Negro self-sufficiency and voluntary segregation.plain2020-06-26T14:08:04-07:00Lawrence Lipton Papers, USC Digital Library1955-10-19; 1957; 1959-10-30Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989, actor; Tandy, Jessica, 1909-1994, actress; Cronyn, Hume, 1911-2003, actor; Fulton, Jack, 1903-1993, composer; Steele, Lois, composer; King's Jesters, musical group; Posner, Paul M., 1930?-2007, speaker; Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, speaker; Snyder, Gary, 1930- , poet; Grass, Günter, 1927-2015, poet; Grass, Gunter, 1927-2015, poet; Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, 1929- , poet; Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- , translator; Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998Bo Doub59bddb0b27f7b3138b6b5c39e4cc435e9208ebad