[Poetry reading] / Douglas Blazek.

Recorded on a 60 minute Scotch sound cassette. It is believed to have been recorded in 1968 or 1969 at the University at Buffalo.

Poet Douglas Blazek performs a dramatic poetry using material from several of his works from the 1960s and several unpublished pieces.

Douglas Blazek.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1969

Sound recording

PCR022

from All gods must learn to kill.Cartwheel news flashes of paper cut-outs --Ballad of the San Francisco cardboard boxes --X marks --Room drownings --We diddle like microbes until the void speaks --Meatus.from manuscript called Skull juices.To my love who is cleaning the basement --Questions on the night shift --Slowly the procession. --from Fuck off, unless you take off that mask.Cosmic radiator worship. --from Broken knuckle poems.Swift entry and slow retreat. --from manuscript called Flux and refluxThe signature of mysteries in the universe. --from Exercises in memorizing myself.Up again 5 a.m. thinking --Putting it straight. --from manuscript called Baptismal corrpution in the sunflower patch.For Dali who should know better. --from Sting and die.Acts from the interior corpse. --from Life in a common gun.And on the clock, a pair of horns. --from I advance with a loaded rose.The yard beyond where the trees web like green spiders. --poems not collected into any manuscript at that time:Fire engines howl --Halloween poems --449 North Woodale Road --Lost and found (Henry Miller)

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