- Collection:
- Big Joy Digital Collection
- Title:
- Jim Cory interview, 2010-06
- Creator:
- Cory, Jim
- Contributor to Resource:
- O'Malley, Ruben
Silha, Stephen;Slade, Eric - Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2010-06
- Subject:
- Poets, American
Experimental poetry
Gay men--Sexual behavior - People:
- Broughton, James, 1913-1999
- Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Topics discussed: Tells of discovering Broughton’s book Ecstasies and corresponding with him; The San Francisco Renaissance, with Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer; James took light verse and infused it with deep Jungian content; Broughton’s mid-life crisis, coming to terms with his androgynous self; Donald Allen’s anthology The New American Poetry (1960) and abstract expressionism, jazz and the various avant-garde poetry “schools”; What it was like to edit Broughton’s Little Sermons of the Big Joy, and Packing Up for Paradise; why it didn’t include “Shaman Psalm”; Broughton’s unique voice and use of paradox, mischief, wordplay, rhythm; Why Broughton isn’t more famous, even though he’s a great poet; Broughton’s memoir Coming Unbuttoned, its revelations (he was Hart Crane’s boyfriend’s lover); How Broughton found true love at 62; John Martin and Black Sparrow Press published Packing Up for Paradise; What Broughton meant by “weird,” “Big Joy”; How Broughton writes and rewrites in vastly different styles about death, childhood, nature, body, love; How will Broughton be remembered?; He reads Broughton poems, including “Round Table,” “This is It”
Poet and editor Jim Cory has edited anthologies by contemporary American poets including James Broughton (Packing Up for Paradise, Black Sparrow Press) and Jonathan Williams (Jubilant Thicket, Copper Canyon Press). His poems have appeared recently in Apiary, unarmed journal, Bedfellows, Cape Cod Poetry Journal, Capsule, Fell Swoop, Painted Bride Quarterly, Skidrow Penthouse, Trinity Review and Whirlwind. Recent essays include “What makes a queen a queen?” in the Gay & Lesbian Review, “Fascinating Asshole (or) How I Came To Love Frank Sinatra” in New Haven Review, and “Where’s the hotboy going tonight?” in Chelsea Station. He received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. His most recent publications are Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir (2018, The Moron Channel, New Orleans) and 25 Short Poems(2016, Moonstone Press, Philadelphia). - Local Identifier:
- W146_CoryJ_201006
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bigjoy/id/18
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Cory, Jim, interviewed by Stephen Silha and Eric Slade, June 2010, Big Joy Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:19:21
- Original Collection:
- Big Joy Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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