[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 17, 1968] / Michael McClure.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo on March 17, 1968 by Allen De Loach on a Scotch 7 inch reel-to-reel. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.

The poetry reading by Michael McClure began with a reading of early versions of two poems, "Plume ode" from Little odes and the raptors (1969) and "Mad sonnet 3" from Star (1970). McClure then read from his published works, including nine poems from Ghost tantras (1964) and then from his play The beard (1965). The woman who introduced McClure is unidentified.

Michael McClure.

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

1968

Sound recording

INT181A

Plume ode (early version) --Mad sonnet 3 (early version) --Ghost tantra (1) --Ghost tantra (39) --Ghost tantra (51) --Ghost tantra (49) --Poem ("Linked part to part, toe to knee, eye to thumb" ) --The mystery of the hunt --The beard (selection) --Poisoned wheat (selection) --first line of poem:[The butterfly is fruiting body of the plasm] --first line of poem:[Living bath of ever, for transcendent] --first line of poem:[If consciousness of light is light] --The sermons of Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid --Ghost tantra (58) --Ghost tantra (89) -- Ghost tantra (73) --Ghost tantra (unidentified) --Ghost tantra (unidentified) --Rant block --The flowers of politics, I.

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