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A celebration of the art of poetry. A well-known poet himself, Jack Foley’s considerable historical knowledge and his awareness of the current “scene” are incorporated into his radio shows and have made them a kaleidoscopic, always stimulating attraction for anyone interested in poetry.
Poems for the Millennium. Jerome Rothenberg reading: Goethe, “Mignon’s Song”; Vuk Karadzic, “A Poem for the Goddess”; Mikhail Lermontov, “New Year’s Poem”; Cyprian Norwid, “Chopin’s Piano”; from Rimbaud, “Second Delirium: Alchemy of the Word”; Adah Isaacs Menken, “Judith.” Jack & Adelle Foley reading: Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind.”
Poems for the Millennium. E.E. Cummings reading: Wordsworth, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality” (1952). Jack & Adelle Foley reading: Baudelaire, “Litanies of Satan.” Serge Bouzouki & Patrick Janvier reading with music: Baudelaire, “L’Etranger.”
Poems for the Millennium. Katherine Hastings reading: Mary Shelley, "The King of Cats"; Adah Isaacs Menken, "Sale of Souls." Michael McClure reading: Keats, "Dream and Dream Sonnet: Paolo & Francesca"; Shelley, "Lift Not the Painted Veil." Bill Berkson reading: Keats, "Sonnet on Fame"; Coleridge, "Urine"; Selections from Rimbaud, "The Drunken Boat" (Ted Berrigan translation); Robert … Continued
Poems for the Millennium. Michael Palmer reading: Ernest Jones, "The Song of the Low"; Christina Rossetti, "My Dream." Two poems by Michael Palmer: "Bridge of Bones" and "Traumgedicht (Dream Poem)." Diane di Prima reading: Lewis Carroll, the first of "3 Syllogisms"; Edward Lear, "How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!"; from Washington Matthews, "The Navajo Night … Continued
Poems for the Millennium. Interview with co-editor Jerome Rothenberg.
Poems for the Millennium Volume 3 continued. Today’s show features excerpts from William Bolcom’s setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence & Experience; Katherine Hastings on Poems for the Millennium; Leslie Scalapino reading from Rousseau, “Reveries of the Solitary Walker” and, in its entirety, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.”
Today’s is the first show in an eight-part series based on Poems for the Millennium Volume 3: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson. Today’s show, a prequel, features Jack Foley reading “Hamlet, Keats, and La Conscience de Soi.”
