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Philip Whalen 07/23/1980

SHOWID 263341

Set I

 

Set II

 

Set III

 

Comment

First half of class 1 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses the American language as a system distinct from English. He focuses on poems of Wallace Stevens, particularly "The Bed of Old John Zoeller" and also discusses H.L. Mencken, Lew Welch, and his own family history.