I previously wrote off Joanne Kyger as too enamoured with her first drafts, but after reading Robert Adamson’s Bolinas Bay, an Ode (dedicated to Kyger) I’ve had a change of heart.

In this episode I look at Kyger’s poems June 7, ‘I’m Very Busy Now So I Can’t Answer All Those Questions About Beat Women Poets’ and ‘Stoutly Maintains I Never Rewrite’, along with her 1997 interview in Jacket magazine.

Show notes

• Kyger’s collection On Time from City Lights Books
• Robert Adamson’s The Golden Bird: New and Selected Poems from Black Inc.
• New York Times obituary: ‘Joanne Kyger, Zen-Infused Beat Generation Poet, Dies at 82’
• Ep 32. Cid Corman
• Ep 47. Jack Spicer
• Diane Wakoski
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
• Anne Waldman
• Double rainbow