"Razzamatootie!" -- Dannie Richmond, "Eat that Chicken"
Jack Clarke—The Human as Poetic Activity , Lecture 1 part 2, 17 September, 1984
In 1984, Jack Clarke, at the invitation of Paul Kugler, gave a series of 8 lectures to the Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York in Buffalo. His topic was William Blake and Charles Olson, the two poets who stood at the gates of his imagination of what poetry can do. I discovered the existence of the event while going through Jack’s papers at the Poetry/Rare Book Room at UB (SUNY Buffalo). When I mentioned the event to Jim Maynard, he went into curatorial Philip Marlowe mode and tracked down a dusty box of cassette tapes that had been donated to the Collection by the Analytical Psychology Society. He then generously had them digitalized and sent to me.
I will be posting them over the next few months.
This is part 1 of the opening lecture, delivered 17 September 1984.
A poetry/music/art event with Daniel Barta, Christian Bernard Singer, and Michael Boughn at Contxt in toronto, 10 April 2025
A poem on the current Ahrimanic flare up.
An Alchemical Reverie in a Blakian Mood, Part 1
An Alchemical Reverie in a Blakian Mood, Part 2
An Alchemical Reverie in a Blakian Mood, Part 3