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Skellings 'performs' electronic poesy
Free University Issues and Confrontations
Topic: Can One Have Both Faith and Reason
Speakers: F. A. Garvin, Nelson Potter
and Father R. B. Hein ,Time: 8:00 Tues., March 30
Place: Nebraska Union (room to be posted)
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ALAN BOYE
"You'd better not stand in
the room, it gets pretty loud in
here." I watched as Edmund
Skellings, a nationally known
poet adjusted a strange black
box on the top of his amplifier.
I knew that he would perform
his poetry Friday at 7:30 at
Kimball Recital Hall and I
found myself starting to
understand why word was
"perform" and not "recite."
"This is a two word poem
that deals with the male-female
problem that has been going on
for thousands of years. . .NOW
NOWNOwNowNoNono. .
He grinned and put the
microphone down, "you see,"
he said, "It's a lot easier to
show someone what I do then
try to explain it." I listened to
the microphone still echoing
since it was put on the floor
and decided that it indeed
must be very loud in the room.
THE ECHO chamber and
amplifier are just part of
Skellings act. The poetry deals
with character sketches, male
SHOW OFF!
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and temales Uving and loving
up, uses complex developments
of metaphors, and comes
across in every form from
formal reading, to blues
dialect, to the monotonous
voice of a high school biology
teacher, "Now then letus all
look at the disection. . . "
We walked into ' another
office. "You've got to be able
to perform a poem, not stand
in front of a lecturn and recite.
You've got to put yourself on
the line."
I watched him light up a
cigarette moving the match
gracefully but deliberately
towards the bobbing cigarette.
"You see people don't know
how to read poetry. . .It's as if
you handed them a score of a
symphony, they wouldn't
know what to do with it.
"People don't want to make
an interpretation, they don't
know how, they want to hear
somebody perform one."
HE STOOD up and walked
decisively to the wall, and then
turned to me. "Like I know a
half million lines of English
poetry, all right, but after all
that what about ME?"
He said and stared at the
ceiling. "It's said that poets
should always break out, but
break out to where? I'm
breaking out, I'm putting
words down past the syllable
level, past any definition of
poetry. I'm not satisfied unless
poetry does something else
than repeat words."
I thanked him and assured
him that I'd mention that
tonight's concert will be
sponsored by the Nebraska
Educational Television got my
coat and walked out.
I walked past the room with
the amplifier and it struck me
that someone had called
Skellings the Dylan Thomas of
America. "But Dylan Thomas
only had his great voice to
perform. I can turn on an
amplifier with an echo
chamber to perform. . . la la 1A
LA LOVE. .
Summer Orientation
to be or not to be?
Because of budget woes the
University if planning a
modified orientation session
for incoming freshmen this
summer.
Peter G. Wirtz, coordinator
of Student Activities, said this
year's program, tenatively
scheduled for June 1 1 to July
23, "will not be the quality
program that it has been in the
past." He said the program will
be financed out of student fees
and registration fees.
Students who would like to
apply for host positions for the
program should contact the
Student Activities office by
March 30, according to Wirtz.
He added that those students
who have already applied
should also contact Student
Activities.
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