[Poetry reading at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 11, 1984] / Philip Whalen.

Recorded at the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 11, 1984 on a 120 minute Memorex sound cassette.

This recording is of a poetry reading by Philip Whalen for the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, held at one of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 11, 1984. Most of the poems that Whalen reads are from Enough said (1980). Several of the poems that Whalen reads are early versions. The introduction is by Robert Creeley.

Philip Whalen.

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

1984

Sound recording

PCF110

The grand design --The winter ("Why do I fear the true winter death to come") --A recall --Homage to WBY --With compliments to E.H. --Prolegomena to a study of the universe --Life at Bolinas. The last of California --The madness of Saul --In the center of autumn --Life in the city. In memoriam Edward Gibbon. --The Universal & Susquehanna Mercy Co. Dayton, O. --High-tension on low-pressure non-accomplishment blues --Homage to Aram Saroyan --Money is the roost of all eagles --The talking picture --Dream poems --The vision of delight --Luxury in August --Look away --Lines for a celebrated poet --I used to work in Chicago --The inspection of the mind in June --How many is real --What's new? --Welcome back to the monastery --La condition humaine --Rich interior, after Thomas Mann --The bay trees were about to bloom --And then --The phantom of delight --Labor Day again, 1979 at San Francisco --Chanson d'Outre Tombe --first line of poem:[It's annoying as hell] --first line of poem:[Doing something for the public good is not necessarily philanthropy --Mama --Partition --Naturally museum --Sunset on straits of Juan De Fuca --Attrition --Carmina Mundi --Thanksgivening --first line of poem:[Percolator fountain thick dome of glass] --The roast is lost --The first of 20 new poems --Some of these days (III Thursday) (IV Thursday, too) (V Thursday, three) (early version) --Quack --first line of poem:[Where is there honey].

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