[Robert J. Bertholf interview] /

Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. on October 19, 1986 on Spoken Arts Radio. Paul Hogan donated a copy of the recording made on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette.

Paul Hogan interviews Robert J. Bertholf, curator of the Poetry and Rare Books Collections at the University at Buffalo from 1978 to 2004. Bertholf discusses the history of the Poetry and Rare Books Collections at the University at Buffalo from its inception by professor Charles D. Abbott to collect poetry books and manuscripts, to the large donation of the rare books first edition collection of Thomas B. Lockwood, and ultimately to its current direction under Bertholf's curatorship. He notes how important it is to the literary scholar to have a library which houses vast and inclusive holdings of contemporary poetry first editions, manuscripts and supporting critical works, translations, audio recordings and ephemera. Bertholf plays rare audio recordings from the Poetry Collection featuring Charles Olson (who reads in 1966 from the Maximus poems) and Frank O'Hara (who reads the poem, Mary Desti's ass.)

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

1986

Sound recording

HOG062A

Hear@Buffalo: The Poetry Collection’s Audio Archive

UB Only

lib-pc002-HOG062A.mp3