[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, July 18, 1972] / Ruthven Todd.

Recorded at the Norton Conference Theater at the University at Buffalo on July 18, 1972 on two Scotch 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes.

Poet Ruthven Todd reads his poetry from his books. He is introduced by an unnamed man. He recalls his association with Buffalo and the Poetry Collection's founder, Charles D. Abbott.

Ruthven Todd.

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

1972

Sound recording

PCR327

first line of poem:[Now, oh let lovers lie close near] --Various ends --first line of poem:[The common hare, long-legged and long of ear] --Marginally, a letter to Keats --Learn churchyard in 1954 --first line of poem:[A patchwork of littleness is known about his life] --The louse --A mantelpiece of shells --An upper left incisor -- --first line of poem:[Here where the great grapes will not grow] --Troutflies --Two-legged cat --The judgement of fish --Dead owl --first line of poem:[When I was very young, my nurse took me out of the place with the wicker cake stand] --first line of poem: Now, over the map that took 10 million years of rain and sun] --first line of poem:[And so many braggadocio friend is dead] --first line of poem: [Once there were peasant parts and a day brown hair upon the olive table on that magic farm] --The truth in the bottle --Meeting again.

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