XO is unlike any epic you have read recently.It's a rollicking romp through the end times of USAmerica and its self-delusions of virtue and power. J.P. Harpigies describes it as "East Broadway Rundown as performed in words and sound by Lautréamont, Jarry, Artaud, Derrida and Borges or some combo of super-hip transdimensional aliens . . .." 

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.

An Alchemical Reverie in a Blakian Mood, Part 3