11-27-2023, 07:12 AM
Kenneth Koch and Jay Wright reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 15, 1976 | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
These is the same recording.
Jay Wright must have more readings, but this is all we have online.
TB will probably appreciate Kenneth Koch.
David Lerner and Jack Micheline and the guy doing the Baudelaire stories stood out to me from the Outlaw Bible. I can't find it. It's in those piles of books in that room.
Jim Carroll is stressing the French connection.
That French connection is in a lot of it.
They couldn't get Bukowski. Bukowski made a point to reject the French and complex stuff.
Bukowski knew all the stuff enough to reject it, and make that a point.
I will now reject all that stuff, too.
Bukowski took after Artaud and Artaud's "No more masterpieces". No more masterpieces needs masterpieces to exist before and after. Artaud was willing to destroy will and art.
Bukowski, like Onita the wrestlre, created big business out of wounds and ignornace and limitatioats.
I have perfected this. I call this: Shining Ignorance