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Title
Innovation
and the
Writer
Performer(s)
Rakosi
,
Carl
Subject 1
Poetry
,
Modern
--
20th
century
.
Abstract
MFA
Class
: A
Carl
Rakosi
lecture
on
experimentation
and
innovation
in
writing
,
examining
the
role
of the
reader
as
well
as the
writer
. He
notes
the
modern
emphasis
on
originality
, and
looks
at the
possibilities
for
innovation
in
subject
matter
,
form
, and
language
,
touching
briefly
on the
work
of
Walt
Whitman
,
Gertrude
Stein
,
Ezra
Pound
,
Louis
Zukofsky
,
James
Joyce
, and
Jackson
Mac
Low
.
Rakosi
then
turns
his
attention
to the
reader
. He
divides
the
audience
for
experimental
poetry
into
poets
, would be
poets
, and
occasional
readers
,
discusses
the
expectations
and
needs
of the
audience
, and
looks
at the
differences
between
reading
the
written
version
of a
poem
and
listening
to
it
being
read
. The
lecture
concludes
with a
question
and
answer
period
which
includes
comments
by
Allen
Ginsberg
and
Anselm
Hollo
.
Content
0:00
Introducing
"
Innovation
and the
Reader
"
Imagination
and
reason
8:40
Implicit
in
modern
art
is
originality
; in
classic
or
ancient
art
, this
wasn't
true
11:45
Strict
to
loose
form
/
subject
matter
:
range
that ?
12:55
Whitman's
innovation
;
similarity
? to
Biblical
. He
created
a
form
that had
never
been
seen
before
14:00
Joyce's
"
Finnegan's
Wake
"
-
Greatest
innovation
ever
in
form
,
language
, and
subject
matter
.
Rakosi
reads
as an
epic
poem
.
15:25
Gertrude
Stein
,
opposite
direction
of
Joyce
,
simplifying
and
reducing
language
to its
most
elementary
meaning
.
Pure
play
.
16:43
Pound
,
almost
archaic
, but
innovated
17:27
Zukowsky
,
translation
of
Catullus
-
music
more
than
meaning
. A
24
-
It
is
possible
in
imagination
to
divorce
speech
from its ?
21:37
Jackson
Mac
Low
25:00
What
different
types
of
readers
expect
from a
poem
,
1)
Poets
,
2)
Would-Be
poets
,
3)
Occasional
reader
34:40
"
All
I
Have to
Say
"
35:05
Ginsberg
question
,
responding
to
Rakosi's
statement
about
the
most
readily
acceptable
poem
at a
public
reading
is
the
most
superficial
.
37:15
? ?
=
awful
reader
40:00
Anslem
Hollo
question
:
clarity
vs
.
opacity
,
might
people
come
to
like
a
certain
degree
of
opacity
or
mystery
45:17
?
sense
of
writing
for the
company
of
poets
46:00
Types
of
reader
access
to a
poem
Type of Event
lecture
Engineer's Notes
good none
Date Recorded
1993-07-22
File Format
mp3
Performance Length
0:47:27
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
Original Format
audio cassette
Publisher
Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type
Sound
Language
eng
File Name
93P086.mp3
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