Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Etheridge Knight-So My Soul Can Sing

Watershed Tapes, February 25, 1986

Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks
He Paid Me Seven
Wild Negro Bill
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for Crimminal Insane
He Sees Through Stone
The Idea of Ancestry
A WASP Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
"Beyond this green field"
For Freckie-Faced Gerald
The Warden Said to Me the Other Day
Rehabilitation and Treatment in the Prisons of America
Belly Song
"Frozen Lakes"
Yellow moon rise
Two Hours I've Walked
"Sigh, cry, broken hearted woman"
"Say Mister"
Circling the Daughter
The Sun Came
To the Man Who Sidled Up to Me and Asked, "How Long You in Fer, Buddy?"
On the Yard
To Make a Poem in Prison
Genesis
My Life, the Quality of Which
For Eric Dolphy
A Poem for Myself (or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)
A Poem of Attrition
A Poem for Black Relocation Centers
A Poem for a Certain Lady on Her 33rd Birthday
The Stretching of the Belly
Upon Your Leaving
Feeling Fucked Up
Welcome Back, Mr. Knight, Love of My Life
From the Moment (or Right/at/- The Time)
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
A Watts Mother Mourns while Boiling Beans
For Malcolm, a Year After
On the Birth of a Baby / Black / Boy (For Isaac Blackburn Knight)
Birthday Poem
Another Poem for Me, after Recovering from an OD
For Mary Ellen McAnally
Portrait of Mary
I and Your Eyes
Green Grass and Yellow Ballons

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Jim Cαяяσll-ρrαyiηg Mαηtis (1991)

Fragment:Little N.Y.Ode
A Day At The Races
Times Square's Cage
A Child Growing Up With The Sum
Tiny Tortures
To The National Endowment Of The Arts
Terrorist Trousers
Monologue: The Loss Of American Innocence
For Elizabeth
Sampling Nietzsche
Just Visiting
Praying Mantis

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash 1953


Big ups to our newest benefactor Jim at vintagestandupcomedy.net for providing this wonderful vinyl rip.

Kind Of An Ode To Duty
Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man
Good-Bye, Old Year, You Oaf, Or Why Don't They Pay The Bonus Geddondillo
Watchman, What Of The First Lady?
Song For A Temperature Of A Hundred And One
Medusa And The Mot Juste
A Beginner's Guide To The Ocean
The Terrible People
I Don't Mean Us, Except Occasionally
That Reminds Me
The Evening Out
Don't Grin, Or You'll Have To Bear It
I Remember Yule
Spring Song
Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else. Except Richer
I Do, I Will, I Have
How Do You Say Ha-Ha in French?
What To Do Until The Doctor Goes, Or It's Tomorrow Than You Think
The Polterguest, My Polterguest
Piano Tuner, Untune Me That Piano
Thoughts Thought After A Bridge Party
Mr Bett's Mind A Kingdom Is
Allow Me, Madam, But It Won't Help
You And Me And P.B. Shelley
The Strange Case Of Mr. Ormantude's Bride
How To Be Married Without A Spouse, Or Mr. Kipling, What Have You Done With Mrs. Hauksbee? Spring Comes To Murray Hill

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Williαm S. βʊrroʊghs - Jʊnky

Paging Dr Benway