English as/a Second Language (select words)

Ted Gerike

• Other Authors Sam Setze (Editor)
• Title

  English as/a Second Language (select words)

• Date 2017
• Publisher Los Angeles, CA: Solano Archives
• Description 62 p; 9 in
• Language English and Spanish
• Collections Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  English as/a Second Language (talking package), released by the now defunct Freeway Records in 1983, is a comprehensive collection of Los Angeles poetry, music, and spoken word of the Reagan Era. In a sprawling 84 tracks, organized regionally from Soto to Sepulveda Boulevards, this double record houses a Cassavetes-esque ensemble of beats, hippies, poets, and punks, and includes the work of Wanda Coleman, Michael C. Ford, Charles Bukowski, Dennis Cooper, Exene Cervenka, and Henry Rollins, among others. Solano Archives, a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the preservation and promotion of textual, visual, and musical poetics, has reissued English as/a Second Language as an intermedia anthology, publishing a selection of poems to serve as a reader to the record (not included in the Wendy’s Subway Reading Room). 
  Edition Note: Ed. of 100

• Tags Bilingual, American poetry -- 21st century, Mexican American literature, Mexican poetry - 21st century, Immigration, Labor, MoMA Reading Room