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4. When the first dance is over, the m.c. hands the stick to the third poet (Dick Higgins) , & the same series of actions (rapping for silence, reading, music up, distribution of crackers, dance, etc) is repeated. This goes on (with the dance segments getting successively shorter) through the dance that follows the reading by the fifth poet (Clayton Eshleman) - by which time the basin should be empty of crackers. Before handing the stick to the sixth poet, the m.c. turns the basin over. 
5. From the sixth poet on, gifts are distributed in place of crackers, but there is no dancing. The music continues as before, except when poets have rapped for silence & are reading. This goes on until the next-to-the-last reader (Paul Blackburn) , whose gift distribution is followed by a brief dance segment. 
6. The m.c. now raps for silence & reads a poem of his own choice. To accompaniment of the "poor man music" he distributes the final gifts, * after which all performers do their pieces simultaneously. As soon as each poet or dancer finishes, he leaves the performance area. When all the poets & dancers have left, the music stops. 
Sequence of poems (except for the first piece, which is the introductory poem to this volume as well, there was no attempt to be Indian or read poems on Indian themes; indeed , the point of the event, as it related to its source, was that the carry-over was not in content or in costume but in structure: a way of being heard.):
I. Greeting poem, read by JR; 2. First Friendship Poem by Jackson Mac Low;3. Selection from Six Considerations of the Angel by Dick Higgins; 4. The Meeting by Susan Sherman; 5 . Walk I (1st night), Walk III (2nd night) by Clayton Eshleman; 6. Lines Written in Dejection by Robert David Cohen; 7/ Persons indicated present their compliments to by Hannah Weiner; 8. Song for Beginning by Carol Berge; 9/. Poem (untitled) by George

* In the actual performance the other poets joined the m.c. in the final act of giving. On the second night toy flutes & other sound producing articles were included among the gifts, to give the audience a further means of participation. 
Simultaneities turn up e.g. in the Eskimo "Going Around Event," p. ooo, above. There is no Seneca precedent in the Eagle Dance, but the husk face ceremonies often involve several simultaneous dances by masked beggar clowns - usually while a round dance is also in progress. The device has developed independently in modern "happenings" or in the poetry, e.g., of Jackson Mac Low & others.

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THE APPENDICES 381 4. When the first dance is over, the m.c. hands the stick to the third poet (Dick Higgins) , & the same series of actions (rapping for silence, reading, music up, distribution of crackers, dance, etc) is repeated. This goes on (with the dance segments getting successively shorter) through the dance that follows the reading by the fifth poet (Clayton Eshleman) - by which time the basin should be empty of crackers. Before handing the stick to the sixth poet, the m.c. turns the basin over. 5. From the sixth poet on, gifts are distributed in place of crackers, but there is no dancing. The music continues as before, except when poets have rapped for silence & are reading. This goes on until the next-to-the-last reader (Paul Blackburn) , whose gift distribution is followed by a brief dance segment. 6. The m.c. now raps for silence & reads a poem of his own choice. To accompaniment of the "poor man music" he distributes the final gifts, * after which all performers do their pieces simultaneously. As soon as each poet or dancer finishes, he leaves the performance area. When all the poets & dancers have left, the music stops. Sequence of poems (except for the first piece, which is the introductory poem to this volume as well, there was no attempt to be Indian or read poems on Indian themes; indeed , the point of the event, as it related to its source, was that the carry-over was not in content or in costume but in structure: a way of being heard.): I. Greeting poem, read by JR; 2. First Friendship Poem by Jackson Mac Low;3. Selection from Six Considerations of the Angel by Dick Higgins; 4. The Meeting by Susan Sherman; 5 . Walk I (1st night), Walk III (2nd night) by Clayton Eshleman; 6. Lines Written in Dejection by Robert David Cohen; 7/ Persons indicated present their compliments to by Hannah Weiner; 8. Song for Beginning by Carol Berge; 9/. Poem (untitled) by George * In the actual performance the other poets joined the m.c. in the final act of giving. On the second night toy flutes & other sound producing articles were included among the gifts, to give the audience a further means of participation. Simultaneities turn up e.g. in the Eskimo "Going Around Event," p. ooo, above. There is no Seneca precedent in the Eagle Dance, but the husk face ceremonies often involve several simultaneous dances by masked beggar clowns - usually while a round dance is also in progress. The device has developed independently in modern "happenings" or in the poetry, e.g., of Jackson Mac Low & others.