Not All Harvard Professors Were, Are Crazy And In Some Academic Bubble-Using Modern Digital Technology To Bring Back The Lions Of The Pre-Be-Bop Poetry Like Moore, Eliot, Pound And Frost
A link to an NPR Morning Edition segment on the poetic voice restoration project at Harvard
By Rav Davis
Okay, okay I suffered through long drawn on readings of highbrowed T.S. Eliot, pastural Robert Frost, neo-fascist Ezra Pound and a million other guys and gals who made up the poetry pantheon back in the day, back in high school. Not as far back in the day as when some very savvy professor decided to use the technology of his day to get those high-end poets on vinyl, or wax on anything that would preserve them for posterity. And then it all fell down the materials were left in some sullen corner to decay and die.
Enter digital technology and bang-bang like magic many of those seemingly lost forever recitals are now back in the racks, now ready for poetic listening. A monument to culture and to hard work. But still I would rather listen to one be-bop long gone daddy like Allen Ginsberg holding forth on a moonless Howl. Just like I am doing now via YouTube as I write this little tribute to some hard-thinking Harvard folk.
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