[Poetry reading at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y., April 22, 1976] / Jerome Rothenberg, Charlie Morrow.

Recorded at the Allentown Community Center on April 22, 1976 on an 120 minute Tracs sound cassette by Allen De Loach. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.

Jerome Rothenberg performs his poetry with an emphasis on ethnopoetics in relation to Seneca Native American music and poetry. He also reads translations of historical Hebrew writings. Charlie Morrow contributes to the reading with breathing, chanting and sound exercises which involve the audience.

Jerome Rothenberg, Charlie Morrow.

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

1976

Sound recording

INT075

Jerome Rothenberg reading:Children of the flowers of the priesthood --A Seneca journal --Shaking the pumpkin song --Navajo horse song. --Charlie Morrow presentation with breathing and sound exercises.Jerome Rothenberg reading:Rain event --Patriarchal poetry /written by Gertrude Stein --Rothenberg translates historical writings:first line of poem:[Sect avert sect] --first line of poem:[Here he] --first line of poem:[In the thirtieth year] --first line of poem:[Fire eating] --first line of poem:[And orbit of the world] --first line of poem:[Was it heaven] --The seventh palace --Poem for the small face --I have sung an old measure. --Charlie Morrow presentation with sound exercises.

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