To begin ...

As the twentieth century fades out
the nineteenth begins
.......................................again
it is as if nothing happened
though those who lived it thought
that everything was happening
enough to name a world for & a time
to hold it in your hand
unlimited.......the last delusion
like the perfect mask of death

Monday, April 5, 2010

Reconfiguring Romanticism (40): An Eight-Part Series on KPFA San Francisco

The following is the full program for an eight-part series on Poems for the Millennium, volume 3, The University of California Book of Romantic & Pre-Romantic Poetry, prepared by Jack Foley for presentation on Cover to Cover, his longrunning program on KPFA-FM (Pacifica Radio) in San Francisco. Show times are Wednesdays from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. beginning on April 14, barring occasional changes or preemptions.

April 14
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.”

April 21
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.”

April 28
Poems for the Millennium.
Interview with co-editor Jerome Rothenberg.

May 5
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 Chant”; Walt Whitman, “I Sing the Body Electric,” Part Two;
William Blake, “London.”
Jack Foley reading: “Blind Raftery”; Rilke, “An Archaic Statue of Apollo.”

[FUND DRIVE: MAY 11 – MAY 27]

June 2
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 Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”

The Cast performing two songs by Robert Burns: “Ye Banks & Braes” and “Auld Lang Syne” (original tune).

June 9
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.”

June 16
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.”

June 23
Poems for the Millennium (concluding show in the series).
Jack Foley reading: Fernando Pessoa’s attack on Romanticism (from The Book of Disquiet); two passages from Thomas De Quincey.

Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson (from The Belle of Amherst).

The voices of Alfred Lord Tennyson & Walt Whitman

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