[Poetry reading, Buffalo, N.Y., March 20, 1972] / Leslie Fiedler, John Logan, John Barth.

Recorded in Buffalo, New York on March 20, 1972 by Allen De Loach on a 120 minute Dynasound sound cassette. Recording was acquired from De Loach by the Poetry Collection.

This reading by Leslie Fiedler, John Logan, and John Barth was held in Buffalo, New York on March 20, 1972. Fiedler and Logan read poetry, and Barth read the opening of his novella Perseid, published in the collection Chimera in 1972. According to the title on the original container of the recording, the reading was held in one of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Buffalo, but it is unclear which one. Also according to the original container, the reading was held as a benefit for SUNY Buffalo, where all three men were teachers at the time of the reading.

Leslie Fiedler, John Logan, John Barth.

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

1972

Sound recording

INT042

Disc 1.Leslie Fiedler reading:Dumb dick --A bloody husband --Mortadello di Bologna --A lament for little Farfeli --Rose --Marguerite --Portrait of the artist as a young minotaur --Call it sleep. --John Logan reading:Grandfather's railroad --Middle-aged midwesterner at Waikiki again --Dawn and a woman --Spring of the thief --A trip to four or five towns --New poem.Disc 2.John Barth reading from Chimera:Perseid.

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