[Donald Justice poetry reading] /

Recorded at the Oscar Silverman Memorial Reading at the University at Buffalo on November 5, 1986. Paul Hogan donated a copy of the recording made on a 90 minute Certron sound cassette.

Irving Feldman introduces poet Donald Justice. Justice reads poems and shares anecdotes about Henry James, Rainer Marie Rilke, loneliness, mothers and piano teachers.

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

1986

Sound recording

HOG011

Lethargy --Bus stop --Last days of Prospero --Sonnetina in yellow --Henry James at the Pacific --Villanelle at sundown --In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn --Purgatory --Young girls growing up --Last evening --Nostalgia and complaint of the grandparents --Cinema and ballad of the Great Depression --Psalm and lament --Nostalgia of the lake fronts --The pupil --Mrs. Snow --The piano teachers: a memoir of the thirties --Afterschool practice: an epidose --Little elegy for cello and piano --Sunset maker.

Hear@Buffalo: The Poetry Collection’s Audio Archive

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