[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, September 17, 1974] / George Oppen.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on September 17, 1974 on a 7 inch Concordia reel-to-reel tape.

Poet George Oppen reads from This in which (published in 1965) and from his manuscript for Myth of the blaze (to be published in 1975). Recording begins after a break

it is thought the recorder was not on during the first part of the reading.

George Oppen.

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

1974

Sound recording

PCR247

from This in which:Five poems about poetry: The gesture --The little hole --That land --Parousia --From Virgil --The forms of love. --from Myth of the blaze:The Book of Job and a draft of a poem to praise the paths of the living (in memory of Mickey Schwerner) --Myth of the blaze --Confession --The little pin: fragment. --Guest room --Exodus.

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