Friday, September 17, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Notes on "Causal Mythology": Berkeley Poetry Conference, July 1965
A page from my notes on Charles Olson's lecture, "Causal Mythology," at the Berkeley Poetry Conference in July '65. This isn't the legendary talk later in the week (although I have notes of a sort on that as well), but an earlier, more intimate moment in a classroom.
Eight lines down, the giddy, 17 year-old exclamation “GINSBERG JUST BORROWED 2 PIECES OF PAPER FROM HERE -->," with an arrow toward the spiral binding.
Understand that Ginsberg and Olson were people I had been reading before I arrived -- so to see them walk out of those pages was eye-popping.
The indented parts were my attempt to represent what Olson was writing on a blackboard or tablet at the front of the room (can't recall which).
More to come in some form later. . . .
Eight lines down, the giddy, 17 year-old exclamation “GINSBERG JUST BORROWED 2 PIECES OF PAPER FROM HERE -->," with an arrow toward the spiral binding.
Understand that Ginsberg and Olson were people I had been reading before I arrived -- so to see them walk out of those pages was eye-popping.
The indented parts were my attempt to represent what Olson was writing on a blackboard or tablet at the front of the room (can't recall which).
More to come in some form later. . . .
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