Philip Whalen, 1976, from On Bear's Head and The Kindness of Strangers —The Poetry Center

Full-program video with downloadable audio option at Poetry Center Digital Archive: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poe... Philip Whalen, May 5, 1976, reads and comments on his poems, on a double bill with Clark Coolidge, for The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. Leafing through On Bear’s Head, Whalen reads a string of short poems: “Paranoia Revisited,” “L’Enfant Prodigue,” “Giant Sequoias,” “Night and Morning Michelangelo,” “Pet Shop,” “The Winter,” “Crowded,” “Homage to Robert Creeley,” then picking up a manuscript page, reads “For Clark Coolidge.” He then talks about Coolidge's prose and a desire of Ernest Hemingway, and relates an anecdote from Kenneth Rexroth. The full program includes Whalen's and Coolidge's complete readings. #poetrycenterarchivegoeslive #philipwhalen