[Poetry reading at Baldy Hall, University at Buffalo, December 17, 1978] / Edward Dorn.

Recorded in Baldy Hall, University at Buffalo on December 17, 1978 on a 60 minute Ampex sound cassette.

Poet Ed Dorn is introduced by University at Buffalo professor Robert Creeley. Dorn begins by saying "I'm still reading pretty much what I've been reading, in fact, some of it I read the last time I was in Buffalo, in the Presbyterian Church. In the mean time, it's become a book [Hello, La Jolla (June 1978)], but because of it's nature, it just keeps going on, so I've added to it and I've come to see that it's not really final at all." Dorn then reads "arbitrarily selected further ideas which would have gone into the book had I had them at that time." This includes thirty-one uncollected poems and quotations from Richard Porson, Charles James Fox, Ben Jonson, Baron Macaulay, Brooks Adams, Tom Clark, Thomas Hobbes, and John Milton, which compliment the six quotations that are included in Hello, La Jolla with titles and line breaks ( "The Russian quote," "The Sanders quote," "The Broughton quote," "The Cobett quote," "The Baron Macaulay quote," and "The Burr quote" ). Dorn then reads almost all of the poems printed in Hello, La Jolla.

Edward Dorn.

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1978

Sound recording

PCR085

Simile --first line of poem:[The characteristic] --Self-serving service, or the grab-and-stab machine --Proposed as the name for an early American punk group --The country awards (uncollected) --first line of poem:[I went to Strasburg, where I got drunk] (by Richard Porson) --first line of poem:[Entirely without or lacking Ghengis] --San Francisco, 7 July, 1978 (uncollected) --first line of quotation:[Poetry is the great refreshment of the human mind, the only thing, after all] (by Charles James Fox) --first line of quotation:[Men of spirit seldom keep earth long] (by Ben Jonson) --first line of poem: [The present lacks the ability to parody itself] --first line of poem:[The inflation of money is the inflation of disease] --first line of poem:[When Oakland loses] --first line of poem:[The principle which directed all his dealings with his his neighbors] (by Baron Macaulay) --first line of poem:[Money alone is capable of being transmitted immediately into any form of activity] (by Brooks Adams) --first line of quotation:[Apparently, one of the first signs of advancing civilization is the fall of the value of owmen in men's eyes] (by Brooks Adams) --first line of poem:[Childrenlose value] --first line of poem:[Kid tells me] --first line of poem:A very short lament --Who is Sylvia? (by Tom Clark) --first line of poem:[The new French ambassador] --first line of poem:[How can you be a generalist] --first line of poem:[He wore a yellow ribbon] --Real-estate no explode --The offer they had to refuse --first line of poem:[We are in the hands of a monoglass] --Bumper sticker --first line of poem:[John Huston lost one hundred thousand dollars] --Double quote --An ideal --first line of poem:[Watch out for the zips] --first line of poem:[So far this nation] --first line of quotation:[Though the whole world build their houses on the sand] (Thomas Hobbes) --first line of quotation:[It is just that a less number compel a greater number to retain their liberty] (John Milton) --first line of poem:[Whoever saw a copy --first line of poem:[Necessity is said to be the plea of tyranny] (Charles James Fox) --Terms of futility --An originary tongue --It seems to me I've heard that song before --first line of quotation:[In lands like southern California] (John L. Stoddard) --Shifting an interference with nature to a specific obstruction --Del mar --Wet cake --What will be historically durable --Chicken relativity --An opinion on a matter of public safety --Beyond the air bag --Beware the plural of usual --You're supposed to move your head, not your eyes --In defense of pure poetry --How can one not blush to accept pay for defending the country --first lne of poem:[A flywheel is a wheel with] --Distraction control --Spuw slang --Period westerns --category a footnote --The Russian quote --Routine --The last tycoon --Stuff the voice-print --A thoroughbred named supreme act --A short study of death --Upping the ante on detente --The Cobbett quote --Correct usages of some words widely misused or abused in modern conversation & poetry --The Baron Macaulay quote --What is this thing called contemplation --The Burr quote --Palms, victory, triumph, excellence.

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