[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, June 17, 1973] / Edward Dorn, David Meltzer.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on June 17, 1973 by Allen De Loach on a 90 minute Ampex sound cassette which was acquired by the Poetry Collection.

This recording is of the June 17, 1973 joint poetry reading given by Edward Dorn and David Meltzer in Buffalo, N.Y. Dorn reads a group of uncollected poems, and then from The collected poems, Recollections of Gran Apacheria, and "The cycle" from Gunslinger. Meltzer reads selections from Bark, Asaph, Hero/Lil, and Round the poem box.

Edward Dorn, David Meltzer.

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

1973

Sound recording

INT060

Disc 1.Edward Dorn reading:first line of poem:[Now we are turning our heads this afternoon] --first line of poem:[Interim report] --first line of poem:[Pictured in my window] --Executioner, stay thy cold blade --The history of futures --Return to nature --Paranoia incorporated: a conversation --A quick glance at the immediate present --The big message of the seventies --A thought --Heavy acquisition --The octopus thinks with its arms --The contract --Easy's best. --from Recollections of Gran Apacheria:Juh & Geronimo --Nana & Victorio --Victorio --The moving, invisible spectre of the phratry on the traitor peaches. --from Gunslinger:The cycle. --David Meltzer reading:from Bark, a polemic:first line of poem:[I ran one down] --first line of poem:[It's what they teach in school] --first line of poem:[We learn after a while of it] --first line of poem:[Dog shot in his pocket] --first line of poem:[I sent him to school] --first line of poem:[Dog eat dog] --Doggie diner --Admonition --first line of poem:[Shameless hussy Bella] --first line of poem: [Neutrd spayd] --first linen of poem:[We came & never left] --Admonition --first line of poem:[Dog who didnt know] --The word --first line of poem:[I've always said] --first line of poem:[Am I the Jew] --first line of poem:[Well, yes, I suppose] --first line of poem:[So what is it you want] --Asaph --Celanine --from Hero/Lil:first line of poem:[Lily in the valley] --first line of poem:[Yezer that's my Lili] --first line of poem:[She-demon deity lays on the sofa] --first line of poem:[Me & Lil on a hill of gravel] --first line of poem:[Lili makes me read Creeley] --excerpt from Zohar (Sitrey Torah):[She adorns herself] --first line of poem:[Lil is process] --first line of poem:[Lil in you & me] --first line of poem:[Lil, they never warned me] --first line of poem: [Lilith, my lyre] --first line of poem:[Facing Lili] --from Round the poem box: rustic &domestic home movies for Stan & Jan Brakhage:Nature poem.

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