[Poetry reading, October 14, 1975] / Bobbie Louise Hawkins.

Recorded in possibly Alfred, N.Y. on October 14, 1975 on a 120 minute Studio sound cassette by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo.

Fiction writer, monologist, performer and poet Bobbie Louise Hawkins performs a traditional poetry reading. Audio becomes poor at 49 min., 24 sec. At 50 minutes into recording an unidentified young man, possibly Allen De Loach, reads poetry for a few minutes. Second disc starts after the poet's mid-reading break in the middle of poem being read by Hawkins. Shortly after a break, poet re-reads several poems which leads cataloger to believe this disc is composed of two separate readings that the recorded, De Loach, put on the same tape.

Bobbie Louise Hawkins.

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

1975

Sound recording

INT035

Disc 1.from Own your body:A poem for women and for men --Rainbow --It's another ignoble thing --The treasure rises. --from Fifteen poems:Each day a day --V (All the sweet human hooks) --VII (This view from this window's) --IX (Branches and leaves and) --XII (He still lived) --XIII (Quivering) --XV (The thought that was called Helen). --Times like these: a romance.Disc 2.[recording starts in the middle line of poem]:"there where the wood grows dark" --first line of poem:"It's a good thing to mean it" --Song --first line of poem:"If you don't get planted, you won't get harvested" --first line of poem:"You're like a rainy day" --first line of poem:"My I-ching has gone against me" --from Own your body:A poem for women and for men --Rainbow --It's another ignoble thing --The treasure rises --Each day a day --IX (Branches and leaves and) --XII (He still lived) --XIII (Quivering) --XV (The thought that was called Helen) --When you're stoned on grass and drinking wine --Running set of lies --Preston stuck his foot up in the air.

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