Basil Bunting, 1976, reading Briggflatts, at SF Museum of Modern Art -The Poetry Center

Full-program video with downloadable audio option at Poetry Center Digital Archive: diva.sfsu.edu/...
“...I'm entirely happy if you merely enjoy the noise it makes." Basil Bunting, April 29, 1976, reads from the start of his celebrated long poem Briggflatts (1965). Sitting in a chair with a tableside floorlamp and being fitted with a necklace-style microphone ("Like a coronation, isn't it?"), the poet notes that he typically provides some introductory explanation when he reads Briggflatts. However, he says he's "become extremely bored with [his] little lecture on the subject," and crediting his San Francisco audience as "probably quite bright enough to supply all that for itself," Bunting says: "At any rate, if you aren't, I'm entirely happy if you merely enjoy the noise it makes." The full-program video includes Bunting reading the full poem, following after a break by his reading, by request, "Chomei at Toyama" (1932). The program was organized by The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, and takes place at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, its former Van Ness Avenue location.

[@liammcooper]

rut thuds the rim, like "Incan stone" as Ginsberg said

[@craigboswell576]

This is great - even though it cuts off at an odd place. Is there footage of him reading the rest of the poem? Thanks, for this

[@poetrycenterarchivegoeslive]

full reading is at the link in the description, thanks

[@ericmalone3213]

This video is painfully truncated.

[@poetrycenterarchivegoeslive]

full video at link in the description / this is a clip

[@ericmalone3213]

@@poetrycenterarchivegoeslive Correct, & the clip doesn't have to be painfully truncated, Auld Sod.