Joshua Corey

Joshua Corey is the author of thee books of poetry: Severance Songs, Fourier Series, and Selah. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, teaches English at Lake Forest College, and is currently at work on his own poet’s novel.

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Michael McClure reads to lions

Tantra 49 and 1974 Olson Memorial Lectures at Buffalo

Charles Bernstein

photo by Wallace Berman (I love this image)

Last year City Lights published a new edition of McClure's 1964 Ghost Tantras. This early work of McClure's is TK .... under construction.

This mp3 is a 1964 reading of "Tantra" 49 from that book; the recording was made by Bruce Conner.
(4:07): MP3

The video, also a reading of "Tantra" 49, is an excerpt from a 1966 episode of Richard O. Moore’s television series U.S.A. Poetry.

July 31, 2014

'My mother's mother-of-pearl'

Stan Mir

The statistics for literature in translation in the United States aren’t good. As Anna Clark, writing for the Pacific-Standard, points out in her article “You’re Missing Out on Great Literature,” a slim 3 percent of books published per year in the US are works in translation.[1] Some readers and translation publishers are already aware of this number.

July 31, 2014

Tom Weatherly (Nov. 3, 1942 - July 15 , 2014) on PennSound

Charles Bernstein

PennSound has located a rare sound recording of Tom Weathelry, reading in Grand Valley Michigan in July of 1971.
(21;07): MP3
Weatherly reads the complete serial poem "MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS" for the first ten minutes of the reading (text here); after that he reads various poems, including “Lady Fox” from Thumprint but nothing else from that book or MAUMAU.

Tom Weatherly -- full texs of these powerful, brilliant, often volatile (and distressingly unacknowledged) books at Eclipse:
MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS (Corinth Books, 1970, via Eclipse)
Thumbprint (Telgraph Books, 1971, via Eclpise)

July 31, 2014