Richard Brautigan – Listening to Richard Brautigan (1970)

“This node of the American Dust website (formerly Brautigan Bibliography and Archive) provides comprehensive information about Richard Brautigan’s record album Listening to Richard Brautigan, and Brautigan’s recording of his poem ‘Love’s Not the Way to Treat a Friend’ included on the album Paradise Bar and Grill by Mad River. Publication and background information is provided, along with reviews, many with full text. Use the menu tabs below to learn more. Listening to Richard Brautigan featured Brautigan reading thirty poems from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, five stories from Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970, and selections from three novels: A Confederate General from Big Sur, Trout Fishing in America, and In Watermelon Sugar. The thirty poems from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster were: ‘Love Poem,’ ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,’ ‘December 30,’ ‘A Boat,’ ‘Haiku Ambulance,’ ‘Death Is A Beautiful Car Parked Only,’ ‘Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4,’ ‘Crab Cigar,’ ‘Widow’s Lament,’ ‘The Pumpkin Tide,’ ‘Man,’ ‘Adrenalin Mother,’ ‘San Francisco,’ ‘1942,’ ‘At the California Institute of Technology,’ ‘Xerox Candy Bar,’ ‘Alas, Measured Perfectly,’ ‘The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem,’ ‘The Double-Bed Dream Gallows,’ ‘November 3,’ ‘Flowers for Those You Love,’ ‘I Lie Here in a Strange Girl’s Apartment,’ ‘The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster,’ ‘Lovers,’ ‘Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain,’ ‘I Cannot Answer You Tonight in Small Portions,’ ‘The Way She Looks at It,’ ‘A Good Talking Candle,’ ‘I Live in the Twentieth Century,’ and ‘Boo, Forever.’ The stories from Revenge of the Lawn were the title story from this collection, ‘Revenge of the Lawn,’ and ‘A Short Story about Contemporary Life in California,’ ‘The Memory of a Girl,’ ‘The View from the Dog Tower,’ and ‘Pale Marble Movie.’ The selection from the novel A Confederate General from Big Sur was ‘The Rivets of Ecclesiastes.’ The selection from the novel Trout Fishing in America was ‘The Hunchback Trout.’  The selection from the novel In Watermelon Sugar was ‘The Watermelon Sun.’ …”
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