{"id":4232,"date":"2010-07-20T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:22:11","slug":"homage-good-bye-to-tuli-kupferberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/homage-good-bye-to-tuli-kupferberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage &amp; Good-Bye to Tuli Kupferberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday a <strong>Tuli Kupferberg<\/strong> homage was held at Saint Marks in the Bowery&#8217;s Poetry Project. The <strong>Fugs<\/strong> performed a number of Tuli&#8217;s songs, and some 40 plus people spoke or read to honor Tuli, in the very full hall. Below, my amateurish recording of the Fugs doing a Tuli song (an extract, really), and below that my translation of the 1969 <strong>Claude P\u00e9lieu <\/strong>poem dedicated to Tuli, which I read in the original French &amp; in my instant translation (just add English) after suggesting that Claude, who called it splitsville back in 2002, was no doubt hanging out near the Pearly Gates to throw a reception party for Tuli when he arrived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LwgjH7vwr1I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LwgjH7vwr1I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia,serif;\"><strong>Claude P\u00e9lieu<\/strong>\n\n<em>IDIOT SONG<\/em>\n\n                          (for Tuli)\n\nSilence staved in the ripe wheat\n&amp; the body attacked the body\nLight sawed through the fog\n&amp; the music knocked over the chamber maid\nThe silex-emerald of sex set fire to\nthe calendar\nA short line a long line\na black one a white one\nwe couldn't care less we don't give a fuck\nThe spicy stars pinch\nthought's ass.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday a Tuli Kupferberg homage was held at Saint Marks in the Bowery&#8217;s Poetry Project. The Fugs performed a number of Tuli&#8217;s songs, and some 40 plus people spoke or read to honor&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,84,91,97,1],"tags":[247,701,730],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-performance","category-poetry","category-reading","category-uncategorized","tag-claude-pelieu","tag-the-fugs","tag-tuli-kupferberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}