[Poetry reading at the Allentown Community Center, April 1, 1983] / Gary Snyder.

Recorded at the Allentown Community Center on April 1, 1983 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Gary Snyder reads his poetry to an enthusiastic University at Buffalo audience. Snyder is introduced by an unnamed man and begins by discussing Nanao Sakaki's poems. Snyder reads many poems from Axe handles published in 1983. Disc 3 is 70 minutes and 54 seconds long and consists of barely audible conversations of Allen De Loach with other, unnamed people.

Gary Snyder.

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

1983

Sound recording

INT119

If you have time to chatter --Urgent telegram --Ladies and gentleman --Autumn equinox, 1980 --Memorandum 1970 --In a strange country --Poems from the physical plant --Truck --Burn --The silence --Bobby --Shrine --From Axe Handles:San Juan Ridge, California --How do you shape an axe handle --Axe handles --For/from Lew --Among --Changing diapers --So old --Fishing catching nothing --Strategic air command --Working on the '58 Willys pickup. --Disc 2.Spent youth with the classics --True night --From Little songs for Gaia:Talking late with the governor about the budget --Arts councils --A maul for Bill and Cindy's wedding.

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