[Poetry reading at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y., March 5, 1976] / Peter Orlovsky and Allen De Loach.

Recorded at the Allentown Community Center by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on March 5, 1976 on a 120 minute BASF sound cassette.

Poets Allen De Loach and Peter Orlovsky read together for the first time in ten years. A couple of the later poems read by Orlovsky includes banjo accompaniement.

Peter Orlovsky and Allen De Loach.

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

1976

Sound recording

INT070

Allen De Loach reading:Mudhead Kachina --Mudhead beckons --Pilgrimmage --The social dance --Now this was two suns passed --Concerned with paying dues --The dance of Shiva --Recognitions for my wife --Puja 2: Joan --Beginning with fingertips --Through day star seasons.Peter Orlovsky reading:Frist poem --second poem --Cat haiku --Snail poem --Poems from the subway ride --Creedmore State Mental Hospital night shift look & mop --Morris --[Sex experiment poem] (Allen, I'm) --Love poem to A.J. Muste --Don't bite please --Scrambled leaves poems --[After visit to] --Good fuck with Denise --Write it down, Allen said --Down on Penny's Farm [song] --McKinley [song].

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