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1997: Victor Di Suvero on “Pre” Beat Poets

Recorded At: Poets House Spring Street Recorded On: Wednesday, March 12, 1997

Poet Victor Di Suvero reviews the seminal sources of the Beat experience in poetry and discusses of the work of Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth and William Everson/Brother Antoninus as progenitors of the Beats.
(Full Audio, approx. 1 hour)

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