[Poetry reading in Chicago, July 1983] / David Ignatow.

Recorded possibly in Buffalo or Chicago in July 1983 by Allen De Loach on a 90 minute Memorex sound cassette. Recording was acquired by the Poetry Collection from De Loach.

Recording of David Ignatow reading his poems. Ignatow begins reading his works from the 1930's and continues with representative pieces up until 1983. He reads from Say pardon, Poems of the 1960's, Facing the tree, Rescue the dead, and Figures of the human. He reads poetry about John Berryman, fathers and sons, love, war, and social issues.

David Ignatow.

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

1983

Sound recording

INT094

Three --Pardon keeps the sun --Adolescence --The folk singer --For my mother III --The white ceiling --Birthday --Europe & America --Get the gasworks --Daughter so beautiful, I cannot believe it --An ecology --Communion --Pricing --How to be right --The stranger --The faithful one --Mystique --For all friends --How come --The dream --Sunday at the state hospital --Blessing myself --Content --Like a lie --With the door open --A semblance --Emergency clinic II --Hunger on TV --The child responds --To an apple --Earth hard --The sky is blue --The bagel --Rescue the dead --The diner --Once, there was a woman --For John Berryman --Autumn --Hair --Father and son --I sink back upon the ground --How the zebra died in the mouth of the lioness --From the beginning --To welcome the day and its arrival from the earliest creation of the world.

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