Ken Jacobs

Close Listening - readings and conversations at Art International Radio / ArtOnAir.Org

Clocktower Studio, New York, August 4, 2009

Program #1:

Charles,

It was 1954 when I returned from military servitude. No later than 57 when I began SSTD. Busting with fury at the big con job we tolerate. Somehow I scrambled the dates on your show, possibly because mention of the Fifties seemed altogether absurd. Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to say some of this. I wish I would've picked up more on the ideas you were introducing but when one is on a trajectory it can be hard to veer off. '61 I was already with Flo, on Easy Street. A mere 5 years later I'd even earn a living, modest ($3500 a year) but we ate.

—Ken

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• September 2, 2009: "Ken Jacobs: Close Listening, Reading and Conversation, 2009"

Related resource: Three essays by Ken Jacobs at Jacket 2 (2011)

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