Nichols Collection 0005
- Audio, Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
- Gene Nichols. Text by Richard Brautigan
- Audio files
- Performed by Gene Nichols with the Neoteric Ensemble
- April 17, 1981
- Northern Illinois University
- Music © 1981 Gene Nichols, text © 1971 Richard Brautigan
- Collection of Gene Nichols
- The second half of 1981's April 17 program was given over to these interpretations of Brautigan's 1971 poem collection Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. Each segment is a separate poem, which we'll name properly after consulting Gene's copious notes.
- Please contact us with more information about this work or the performance itself.
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File:Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork 10.mp3
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File:Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork 11.mp3
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File:Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork 15.mp3
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File:Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork 16.mp3
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File:Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork 17.mp3
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