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Allen Ginsberg with Marie Syrkin on Charles Reznikoff
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Allen
Ginsberg
with
Marie
Syrkin
on
Charles
Reznikoff
Performer(s)
Ginsberg
,
Allen
;
Syrkin
,
Marie
Subject 1
Poetry--Criticism
and
interpretation
.
Subject 2
Reznikoff
,
Charles
,
1894-1976
Subject 3
Objectivity
in
literature
.
Abstract
7-2-1987
.
Allen
Ginsberg
teaches
the
poetry
of
Charles
Reznikoff
along
with
Marie
Syrkin
.
Among
topics
discussed
are
microscopic
clarity
,
epiphanies
,
eidetic
memory
and
Reznikoff’s
subtle
awareness
of
mind
and
perception
,
which
he
used
to
create
narrative
poems
.
Poems
read
from
include
“Sunday
Walks
in the
Suburbs”
“Heart
and
Clock”
and
“When
the
club
met
in her
home…”
which
is
a
poem
about
Ginsberg
.
Content
0:00
Recording
starts
mid-sentence
with
Allen
Ginsberg
talking
to
Marie
Syrkin
about
the
state
of
American
poetry
and how
well
poetry
sells
.
2:50
Ginsberg
explains
Reznikoff’s
influence
on his
own
poetry
.
3:55
Tells
a
story
his
father
told
him.
Elaborates
on
narrative
tales
in
family
history
.
9:45
Introduces
Reznikoff’s
book
“Five
Groups
of
Verse.”
13:13
Reads
and
discusses
“She
sat
by the
window…”
Reznikoff
writes
narrative
,
anecdotal
poems
about
his
own
experiences
.
20:10
Ginsberg
recommends
making
a
list
of
top
ten
family
stories
or
personal
vivid
moments
to
expand
into
brief
narratives
.
Training
in
poetry
is
training
in
‘catching
yourself
thinking.’
Honor
recollections
.
Process
of
poetry
is
re-collecting
details
of
memory
.
29:29
Reads
“The
House
Was
Pitch
Dark.”
Discusses
Reznikoff’s
writing
and
editing
methods
.
40:40
Vivid
imagery
and
eidetic
memory
.
Reznikoff’s
admiration
of
Robert
Frost
.
44:40
As a
writer
,
present
just
the
vivid
flash
, the
‘hard
diamond.’
How to
enter
into
people’s
mind
in a
permanent
way
.
47:00
Uses
“Western
wind
,
when
wilt
thou
blow…”
as an
example
.
Sapphic
poetry
.
Adelaide
Crapsey
.
55:58
Returns
to
Reznikoff
and
reads
,
“The
baby
woke
with
curved
,
confiding
fingers…”
57:21
Discusses
images
in
“Sunday
Walks
in the
Suburbs.”
59:50
Syrkin
reads
and
discusses
the
line
from
Reznikoff’s
poem
“Heart
and
Clock”
which
she
chose
to
put
on
Charles’
gravestone
,
“and
the
day’s
brightness
dwindles
into
stars.”
Syrkin
and
Ginsberg
discuss
lines
from
various
other
poems
.
1:07:25
“He
showed
me
the
album…”
1:12:13
“In
high
school
she
liked
Latin…”
1:14:45
Student
reads
aloud
“The
shoemaker
sat
in the
cellar’s
dusk…”
1:19:20
William
Wordsworth's
'
spots
of
time
' as
another
term
for
vivid
and
eidetic
imagery
.
1:24:12
Student
reads
“Walking
in
New
York.”
1:29:26
David
Cope
reads
“All
night
the
wind
blew...”
1:31:24
Cope
reads
“A
sign
on a
store
window
…”
1:34:28
Student
reads
“The
Lawyer.”
1:36:36
Student
reads
“Blue
flowers
in the
hot
sun…”
1:37:23
Student
reads
“At
night
,
after
the
day’s
work
, he
wrote…”
1:38:44
Ginsberg
concludes
with
“When
the
club
met
in her
home…”
1:40:07
Recording
ends
mid-sentence
with a
student
making
announcements
.
Type of Event
class
Date Recorded
1987-07-02
File Format
.mp3
Performance Length
1:40:07
Rights Information
Copyright
release
given
to
Naropa
University
for the
purposes
of
preservation
,
marketing
and
educational
use
.
All
other
rights
reserved
to
individual
performers
.
Department
Writing
Tape Order
1 of 2
Publisher
Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type
Sound
Language
eng
File Name
87P011.mp3
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