187. Poets of Venice West Poetry Center, Los Angeles, Calif., [s.d.]

Tape 187, side 1) Poets of Venice West Poetry Center, Los Angeles, Calif.: Bruce Boyd, Stuart Perkoff, Charles Foster, Lawrence Lipton. Bruce Boyd reads his "Petition" (0:02), "Mi ami kay" (0:42), "This is what the watchbird sings who perches in the love tree" (1:05), "This is how the wind sings lover on the beach" (1:49), "Nocturne for the west" (2:22), "Hubris" (3:08). Stuart Perkoff reads his "To be read on festival days" (3:51), "The swing" (4:29), "On unloading a boxcar" (5:33), "We are forced to wage war against time" (6:17), "Echos, echos" (6:50), "We come on quiet man moving down the street" (8:06), "The caveman and the computing machine" (8:52). Charles Foster reading his "Let us count among the customs of the dying islanders the gift of love" (9:31), "Parlor'" (11:58), "Preliminary report on rarum naturum" (13:29). Lawrence Lipton reading his "How to listen to a poem" (17:15), "How jazz was born" (18:45), "The ultimate weapon" (21:21), "The dreaming hands" (23:05), "To make beautiful" (24:55) ❧ Tape 187, side 2) Blank. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.