This week on From the Vault we feature poet Robert Duncan. As a contemporary of Charles Olson, Robert Creely, Denise Levertov, and Jack Spicer, Duncan wrote poetry that became the artistic bridge spanning between the generation of artists like Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Dylan Thomas to the generation of Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, DiPrima, Keroac, and the Beat Poets. We present this October 28, 1960 recording of Robert Duncan reading dozens of his classic poems at the University of California, Berkeley with excitement and reverence – truly deserved by this rare and important audible document of 20th Century writing.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.
First broadcast on Friday July 22, 2011