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Welcome to Venice West: Audio Recordings from the Lawrence Lipton Papers Main Menu Introduction Lawrence Lipton, the Beat Generation in Venice West, and the Lawrence Lipton papers at USC. Lipton and the Beat Generation Poets Lipton’s interviews with or about Beat poets, featuring Stuart Perkoff, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others. Lipton and Venice The Venice West Picture Essay, the Gas House, and the history of Venice. Lipton and Jazz Jazz Canto, Langston Hughes, and Lipton’s recordings of poetry jazz sessions. Audio Collection Browse all the Audio in this Exhibit Project Contributors

Lipton and the Beat Generation Poets

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Tape 108: Stuart Z. Perkoff reading "Blues for Billy Holiday" (0:14) [...] Tape 108: Stuart Z. Perkoff reading "Blues for Billy Holiday" (0:14), "Bird" (4:58), "Invocation" (9:14), "For a stunky school teacher…" (13:57), "The death of Arthur" (31:41) all with music. Julie Meredith singing "Got me a letter from someone who's lonely" (18:14), "He's trying to make me jealous" (18:23)"Waiting for the baby" (21:06), 'Loray my dear heart" (24:56), "Why they a?" (27:51) with guitar, 1959 October 21.
Tape 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 [...] ape 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.
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 […] 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).
Tape 396, Side 1, Part A: Kenneth Rexroth in a live performance, January 1957-1958, reading poetry (all with music) [...] Tape 396, side 1, part A1) Kenneth Rexroth in a live performance, 1957 [1958?] January, reading poetry (all with music) (0:14): Li Qingzhao's "Late spring" (Kenneth Rexroth, translator; Ron Croddy, double bass) (2:10), Ju Shu Chun's "Spring has come" (Kenneth Rexroth, translator; Ron Croddy, double bass) (5:46), Rexroth's "Sword in a cloud of light" (1999) (10:24), Rexroth's "This night only" (Erik Satie's Gymnopédie #1"; Claire Willy, piano) (16:55) , Francis Carco's "The shadow" (22:05), Rexroth's "Habeus corpus" (38:03). ❧ Tape 396, side 2, part A2) [playback speed is too fast] Kenneth Rexroth in a live performance, 1957 [1958?] January, reading poetry (all with music): unidentified poem (0:06), Carl Sandburg's "Mag" (1:20), Kenneth Rexroth's "Quiet lady" (7:34), Rafael Alberti's "Homecoming of love amongst illustrious ruins" from "Retornos de lo vivo lejano" (Kenneth Rexroth, translator) (10:34). ❧ Tape 386, side 2, part B) Tram Combs reading his poetry, 1959 (all with music): "A farewell for Elliott Thomas" (15:29), "On the necessity of new statement of myths and ideas alien to the times" (18:07), "In the mind's silences" (19:50), "Ballad for Americans in mid century, for Elizabeth Malone with five kids" (21:03), "No responsibilities and small thoughts" (22:45), "En la que tu de la noche en San Juan" (24:15), "Lust at night" (26:09), "April carnival, St. Thomas" (27:32), "Down fields of concrete" (30:09), "A going away gift" (31:04), "A pastorale in New Orleans" (32:44), "Middle class" (36:09), "A letter to Gil to remember a hermit" (38:09). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.
Tape 470, Side 1: Lawrence Lipton speaking with Herbert Gold (writer) on literary movements, the beat movement, Allen Ginsberg (poet) [...] Tape 470, side 1) Lawrence Lipton speaking with Herbert Gold (writer) (0:02) on literary movements, the beat movement, Allen Ginsberg (poet), Gregory Corso (poet), Peter Orlovsky (poet), Norman Mailer (writer), Michael McClure (poet), Kenneth Rexroth (poet), Harlan Ellison (writer), conformity and norms, the Judeo-Christian lifestyle, freedom and defiance. ❧ Tape 470, side 2). Blank. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.