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The Poetry [-/+ Critical] Playlist at the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh for Friday, November 1st, 2013, 2–5pm

1. [Poem] Chris Sylvester’s “Still Life with the Pokemon Yellow,” 2012/2013

2. [Song] Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel,” first version from 1972.

3. [Poem] William Carlos Williams’ “Young Love,” 1923.

4. [Poem] Ed Roberson’s “To See the Earth Before the End of the World,” 2010.

5. [Drawings] From Kara Walker’s Dust Jackets for the Niggerati, from 2011, published 2013.

6. [Play] Excerpt from Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro: A Play in One Act, 1964.

7. [Essay] Anwar Shaihk’s “An Introduction to the History of Crisis Theories,” 1978.

8. [Poem] Sandra Simonds’ “I Grade Online Humanities Tests,” 2013.

Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's song "Chelsea Hotel #2"

#wehavethemusic

William Carlos Williams' 1923 poem "Young Love"

#younglove

Ed Roberson’s 2010 poem “To See the Earth Before the End of the World."

#somesayice

[Drawings] From Kara Walker’s Dust Jackets for the Niggerati, from 2011, published 2013.

#byitscover

From Adrienne Kennedy's 1964 play Funnyhouse of a Negro, a 2009 CalArts production. (The audio is very faint.)

#queenvictoria

Anwar Shaikh's 1978 essay "Introduction to the History of Crisis Theories"

#fallingrateofprofit

#jamesfranco

Graahr! or, Thanks, along the Way

Here’s some footage of Michael McClure reading his “Tantra 49” at the lion cages at the SF Zoo—it’s from Richard O. Moore’s amazing series USA: Poetry, from 1966. I’m looking at it because I’m back in Pittsburgh, at the Cathedral of Learning, working today a bit on my Fall 2013 class-to-be, “Interspecies Communication.” I’m using an image, a screen grab from the YouTube of the film, as the frontispiece of my syllabus: with that 60’s era film, the image has such patina, even pre-Instragram. (If anybody happens to read this and wants to recommend a text for “Interspecies Communication,” I’m very open to it. I’m at cdlegere [at] pitt.edu.)

In the meantime, I’ve just been thinking about how much my admittedly still inchoate thinking for the Houghton/“Tubes”/“‘Uh’” project has been advanced by a few people who I’d like to credit or credit again. First, Chloe Garcia-Roberts and Christina Davis, the librarians at the WPR, who helped guide me through the library’s resources, went out for coffee and sushi with me, and introduced me to… Christina email-introduced me to Karin Roffman, a Professor at West Point, who is writing a much-anticipated biography of John Ashbery’s formative years, and who wrote to me very helpfully describing Ashbery’s attendance at Stevens’ readings, and the class he took on “Twentieth-Century American Poetry” with F.O. Matthiessen. Christina also email-introduced me to the poet Susan Howe, who very generously sent me an email with her personal recollections of “Matty,” Ashbery, and Stevens, and pointed me to Stevens’ letter about Matthiessen’s suicide, which I’ve embedded below.

As with—I don’t know, is this true of all projects?—well, as with most projects, interpersonal conversations and generosities make up the skeleton of this one, and have been invaluable.

#grahhr

I miss the Woodberry Poetry Room's treasures.

#vinyl #poetry #nostalgia

Wallace Stevens' Letter of May 18th 1950 to Norman Holmes Pearson about F.O. Matthiessen's Death

#matthiessen #stevens

It's so interesting, being on the Harvard campus. I grew up in Massachusetts, and I'd never realized just how valuable and serene the campus was, even though it was right off Mass Ave, behind a fence. Now that I'm working here each day, I see busloads of tourists disgorge and trudge around taking pictures. I also see straw-hatted college-age tour guides who have to wear t-shirts that say "HAHVAHD" and lead people around. Also, young men and women in 19th-century period costumes leading tours. In the meantime, there are also always campus physical plant workers maintaining the lawns and facilities, and caterers and event staff setting up and taking down tables and chairs and food and drinks for different events. I slip by them all on my way to the Lamott Library.

#harvard

Two Red-tailed Hawks, from the steps of Widener Library.

#red-tailedhawk #widener

(Sketch Towards:) Ashbery's First "Uh"

#johnashbery #life

On Wallace Stevens, Harvard & F.O. Matthiessen (4:04)

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In Ashbery's Chelsea apartment, February 12, 2013

#ashbery #poetry #history

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