[Lecture and poetry reading at SUNY Cortland, October 20, 1967] / Charles Olson.

Recorded at SUNY Cortland in Cortland, N.Y. on October 20, 1967 on a 7 inch Agfa Magneton reel-to-reel tape.

This recording is of a lecture and poetry reading by Charles Olson, held at SUNY Cortland on October 20, 1967, as part of a convocation attended by poets from throughout the SUNY system, including John Wieners. Transcriptions of the recording have been made by George F. Butterick, who published his version in Muthologos: the collected lectures and interviews (1979), and by Ralph Maud, who published his version in the fourth issue of Minutes of the Charles Olson Society (1994). Olson was introduced by Sherry Moore.

Charles Olson.

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

1967

Sound recording

CUR015

Maximus to Gloucester, letter 27 --The ridge --Maximus, in Gloucester Sunday, LXV --Maximus of Gloucester --Got me home, the light / snow gives the air, falling --The winter the Gen. Starks was stuck --An art called gothonic --(Literary result).

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