Kristen Gallagher on LeRoi Jones in 1960

Kristen Gallagher talks about LeRoi Jones’s (Amiri Baraka’s) Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note (1960). Her presentation was part of a symposium on poetry in the year 1960. Other presentations: Mel Nichols on Bill Berkson, Chris Funkhouser on Jackson Mac Low, Ron Silliman on Robert Duncan, erica kaufman on Barbara Guest, Danny Snelson on John Cage, and more. The PennSound page devoted to this symposium is the best place to go if you want links to segmented audio and a video recording of the entire proceeding. The Jacket2 pages featuring the final, revised text of each presentation include links to audio and, where possible, to a segmented portion of the video.