Listening to Richard Brautigan (Naslouchání Richardu Brautiganovi, 1970

Přidal: Přemek |

Únor 6, 2009

Richard Brautigan. Čte Richard Brautigan. Zvuk Mike Vance.

Vydal Harvest Records, 1970, Record Album ST-424; Stereo phonodisc, 33 1/3 rpm. Recorded at Golden State Recorders in San Francisco, California (1 LP, 53 min.).

Pozn.: Featured Brautigan reading thirty poems from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, five stories from Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970, and selections from three novels: A Confederate General from Big Sur, Trout Fishing in America, and In Watermelon Sugar.

Listening to Richard Brautigan began as a spoken-word record album project at Zapple, a subsidiary of The Beatle’s Apple Corps Ltd. record label, but was never completed. Resurrected by Harvest Records, it contained poems, anecdotes, and telephones. The effect was an alternative view of Brautigan.
Obrázek

Obsah: Strana A: 1 – The Telephone Door to Richard Brautigan – 2 – The Hunchback Trout – 3 – Love Poem – 4 – The Rivets of Ecclesiastes – 5 – Here Are the Sounds of My Life in San Francisco – 6 – The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

Strana B: 1 – Revenge of the Lawn – 2 – The Telephone Door That Leads Eventually to Some Love Poems – 3 – The Watermelon Sun – 4 – Here Are Some More Sounds of My Life – 5 – Short Stories about California – 6 – Boo, Forever.

Contents: The thirty poems from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster were: „Love Poem,“ „All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,“ „December 30,“ „A Boat,“ „Haiku Ambulance,“ „Death Is A Beautiful Car Parked Only,“ „Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4,“ „Crab Cigar,“ „Widow’s Lament,“ „The Pumpkin Tide,“ „Man,“ „Adrenalin Mother,“ „San Francisco,“ „1942,“ „At the California Institute of Technology,“ „Xerox Candy Bar,“ „Alas, Measured Perfectly,“ „The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem,“ „The Double-Bed Dream Gallows,“ „November 3,“ „Flowers for Those You Love,“ „I Lie Here in a Strange Girl’s Apartment,“ „The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster,“ „Lovers,“ „Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain,“ „I Cannot Answer You Tonight in Small Portions,“ „The Way She Looks at It,“ „A Good Talking Candle,“ „I Live in the Twentieth Century,“ and „Boo, Forever.“

The stories from Revenge of the Lawn were the title story from this collection, „Revenge of the Lawn,“ and „A Short Story about Contemporary Life in California,“ „The Memory of a Girl,“ „The View from the Dog Tower,“ and „Pale Marble Movie.“

The selection from the novel A Confederate General from Big Sur was „The Rivets of Ecclesiastes.“

The selection from the novel Trout Fishing in America was „The Hunchback Trout.“

The selection from the novel In Watermelon Sugar was „The Watermelon Sun.“