[Lecture at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 18, 1988] / Allen Ginsberg.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 18, 1988 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.

This recording is of the third of three of Allen Ginsberg's Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, delivered on March 18, 1988, titled "Poetry reality and market realities". Ginsberg lectures and reads poems by Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, David Cope, Walt Whitman, Robert Creeley, Philip Whalen, James Schuyler, Gregory Corso, Ted Berrigan, and William Carlos Williams and the passage from Visions of Cody (1959) by Jack Kerouac that begins "I went to Hector's, the glorious cafeteria of Cody's first New York vision." Ginsberg is introduced by Robert Creeley. The first and second lectures are on discs PCF094 and PCF089.

Allen Ginsberg.

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

1988

Sound recording

PCF090

The death of Europe /Charles Olson --The songs of Maximus (1-3) /Olson --Up rising, passages 25 /Robert Duncan --Dillingham, Alaska, The Willow Tree Bar /Gary Snyder --first line of poem:[So at last your personality] /Michael McClure --A million mute corpses speak /David Cope --Song of myself (24) /Walt Whitman --from Visions of Cody: first line of passage:[I went to Hector's, the glorious cafeteria of Cody's first New York vision] /Jack Kerouac --A form of adaptation /Robert Creeley --Further notice /Philip Whalen --February /James Schuyler --Power /Gregory Corso --L.G.T.T.H. /Ted Berrigan --Beyond thought /Michael McClure --For Eleanor and Bill Monahan /William Carlos Williams.

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