[Poetry reading in San Francisco, California, October 18, 1960] / Philip Whalen.

Recorded in San Francisco, California on October 18, 1960 on a 7 inch Ampex reel-to-reel tape, possibly by Allen De Loach, who gave the recording to the Poetry Collection.

Recording of Philip Whalen reading poems from Memoirs of an interglacial age, published in 1960. During the recording, there is unrelated background noise of chanting and singing.

Philip Whalen.

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

1960

Sound recording

INT013

Hymnus ad patron sinensis --From a letter to Ron Loewinsohn --Complaint to the muse --With compliments to E.H. --A thought note between the real and the illusionary --A reflection on my own times --I return to San Francisco --Self portrait from another direction --20:vii:58 on which I renounce the notion of social responsibility.

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