"Well, offhand, I'd say it was something by Ezra Pound." (Published in Laughs from the Saturday Review of Literature and reprinted in the August 6, 1949 issue of SRL.)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0wiOHc9tI]Pete Seeger (born 1919) hasn't been singing much the last few years. He's lost his voice. We saw him about three years ago at an annual gathering of the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the Spanish Civil War and there he for the most part played banjo, joining in a few choruses.
But yesterday Pete sang loudly and joyfully.
Pete and Bruce Springsteen and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger led the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday afternoon in a full rendition of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," and--perhaps as a herald of the moment--added the radical verses often left out. Here's one:
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there And that sign said - no tress passin' But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me!
And here's one about economic hard times:
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office - I see my people And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin' If this land's still made for you and me.
vestiges against which the spirit can breathe
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6O2CcqVtOM]Sueyuen Juliette Lee reads her poem, "A Simple Fact of Memory," at the Kelly Writers House.
change starts with... (us?!)
illegible? must be modern
Creeley on Dylan
During my conversation with Robert Creeley in April 2000, he described his appreciation for Bob Dylan. Here's his 3-minute response: MP3.
Thanks to Jenny Lesser, the hour-long interview has been segmented topically. Go here for the recordings and see below for the list of topics.
the sign didn't say nothin' on the other side
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0wiOHc9tI]Pete Seeger (born 1919) hasn't been singing much the last few years. He's lost his voice. We saw him about three years ago at an annual gathering of the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the Spanish Civil War and there he for the most part played banjo, joining in a few choruses.
But yesterday Pete sang loudly and joyfully.
Pete and Bruce Springsteen and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger led the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday afternoon in a full rendition of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," and--perhaps as a herald of the moment--added the radical verses often left out. Here's one:
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
And here's one about economic hard times:
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.
It is, Pete, it is.