KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Words: Program No. 14: Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

W.1969.12.08

Program Series

Words

Program Length

50 min

Dates

1969-12-08 | broadcast
| 1968-10-13 | created

Description

One in a series of programs produced by Clark Coolidge that feature the works of late 20th century poets, sound poets, and authors. In this recording you will hear two poetry readings. The first, by Ted Berrigan, given in Iowa City on Oct. 13, 1968, and the other by Berrigan and Ron Padgett, given in New York City in 1964. Both members of the New York School of young poets active during the 1960s and beyond, Berrigan and Padgett write short and often humorous poems. In these works, many of which were written in collaboration with other poets, either living or dead, Berrigan and Padgett offer ruminations on the battle over alternating current, dirty limericks, thoughts about war, drugs and sex, and a host of other poetical insights. Their irreverent re-workings of some of the great poems of the past, such as Robert Frost’s “The Birches” and Ezra Pound’s “The Pact” are reminiscent of John Cage’s radical experiments with established musical forms. While they might make John Milton turn in his grave, these poems serve as an excellent example of the avant-garde poetry of the late 20th Century.

Note: Contains some profanity. Names of poems taken from the authors introductions and may not exactly match those found in published books.

Genres

Poetry

Musical Selections

Dedication (0:18) / Rainer Maria Rilke [translated by Ted Berrigan] -- Autumn’s Day (0:35) / Rainer Maria Rilke [translated by Ted Berrigan -- Conceived in Hate (0:32) / Ted Berrigan -- A Dream (0:38) / Ted Berrigan -- Living With Chris (1:08) / Ted Berrigan -- Congress (1:00) / Ted Berrigan & Dick Gallup -- Epithalamium (1:00) / Ted Berrigan & Sotère Torregian -- Florida (1:09) / Ted Berrigan, Lewis MacAdams, & Henry Pritchett (sp?) -- February Air (0:39) / Ted Berrigan -- Flower Children (0:35) / Ted Berrigan -- Black Power (1:00) / Ted Berrigan -- For Tom Veitch (1:09) / Ted Berrigan -- Poem For Phil Whalen (0:53) / Ted Berrigan -- Crazyman Williker (1:49) / Ted Berrigan -- Anne Waldman’s Birthday Party (2:20) / Ted Berrigan -- Song [from “Marilyn at the Palace”] (1:02) / Ted Berrigan & Stuart Byron -- Fits of Candor (0:51) / Ron Padgett & Dick Gallup -- Fits of Affection (0:40) / Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett -- Fits of Nerves with a Fix (0:55) / William S. Burroughs -- [Hello You...] (0:19) / Ron Padgett & Tristan Tzara -- [Hello Blanche...] (0:29) / Ron Padgett & André Breton -- [Hello Linda...] (0:17) / Ron Padgett & Guillaume Apollinaire -- [Hello Dainty Monster...”] (0:25) / Ron Padgett & Charles Baudelaire -- [from “Our Memoirs”] (1:42) / Ted Berrigan & Gen. Douglas MacArthur -- After the Broken Arm (0:44) / Ted Berrigan -- Disappoint Your Mind () / Ron Padgett -- Fine Thing (0:25) / Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett -- Sonnet XXXVII (0:49) / Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett -- A Pact (0:27) / Ezra Pound [with added “oinks” by Ron Padgett] -- Musee des Beaux Arts (0:12) / W. H. Auden [with omissions and additions by Ted Berrigan] -- Musee des Beaux Arts (0:13) / W. H. Auden [with omissions and additions by Ron Padgett] -- The Groundhog (0:33) / Ted Berrigan -- A Man Saw a Ball of Gold (0:25) / Stephen Crane [with changes by Ron Padgett -- Que Sera Sera (0:08) / Ted Berrigan & Giuseppe Ungaretti -- The Hens (0:23) / Ron Padgett -- Long Time No See (0:07) / Ted Berrigan & Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Tooting My Horn On Duty (0:41) / Ted Berrigan & Giuseppe Ungaretti -- 1828 (0:10) / Henri Rousseau -- Liberty (0:09) / Henri Rousseau -- [untitled limerick] (0:10) / Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett -- Asterisk (0:09) / Ron Padgett -- The Ramon C. Story (0:14) / Ron Padgett -- Death of a Citizen: For Ron Rice (0:42) / Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett -- The Physical Sciences (1:24) / Ron Padgett & N. J. Burrell -- Blues at Midnight (0:45) / Ron Padgett -- A Lost Line: Matinee (0:04) / Ted Berrigan & Bruce Kahlen (sp?) -- Post Office (1:45) / Ted Berrigan, et al. -- Birches (0:17) / Robert Frost [with omissions and additions by Ron Padgett] -- Poem (0:10) / Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett

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