[Poetry reading at Empire State College, November 9, 1972] / Diane Di Prima.

Recorded at at Empire State College on November 9, 1972 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.

Prose and poetry reading by Diane Di Prima. Recording includes an informal interview with Allen De Loach. Tracks 4-8 on disc 2 and portions of disc 3 are unlistenable due to a hum.

Diane Di Prima.

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

1972

Sound recording

INT009

Disc 1.from Dinners and nightmares:The poet --The Frenchman --I hope you go through hell tonight --In case you put me down --But babe --You are not quite the air I breathe --In your arms baby --Requiem. --interview --New handbook of heaven --The beach --The yeoman of the guard --The party. --from Calculus of variation:The creative --The joyous. --Disc 2.first line of poem:[I see no end of it] --Poem for the dead lecturer --Revolutionary poem #29. --Disc 3.The trial of Saint Joan --Prayer to the mother spirit --Ave --Loba (excerpts).

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