[KB] Can't Let This Day Pass without Saying . . .

Elvera Berry berrye at roberts.edu
Tue May 5 19:39:42 EDT 2020


Thanks, David ~

Would that the Birthday Boy were around to help us tangle with our current
messes!

Elvera

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:26 PM David Blakesley <david.blakesley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Happy Birthday, Kenneth Burke! On this, the 123rd anniversary of your
> entrance into the parlor.
>
> And for those of you who have some time on your hands, here's KB reading
> his poem to Libbie in 1986, a video collected on the "The First American
> Poetry Disc: Contemporary American Poetry, 1987," which is archived in the
> Allen Ginsburg papers at Stanford. Go the the 45:00 mark:
>
> [image: Screenshot 2020-05-05 18.13.59.png]
> https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/ww360yp0347
>
> And then there's this great photo of KB from 1932 by George Platt Lynes in
> the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (and thanks to Ronald
> Soetart for the lead on this one!):
>
> https://www.artic.edu/artworks/123550/kenneth-burke
>
> Cheers to all,
> Dave
>
>
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