[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, July 18, 1968] / Al Montesi.

Recorded at the Norton Union Hass Lounge at the University at Buffalo on July 18, 1968 at 3 p.m. on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape.

Poet Al Montesi performs his poetry and talks about Beale Street, protest poetry and social problems. Reading was a part of the summer sessions activities series at the University at Buffalo.

Al Montesi.

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1968

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The ballad of Beale Street --Beale Street twenty years later --To Bonnie --Mrs. Robinson --To my students in exile --To a young revolutionist --In memory of F. Scott Fitzgerald --To Mauriac --Veteran's Day, Chicago 1968 --Lines for a C.R. --Lines for my daughter --Lake scene --Post love song --The American intellectual in the 50's --Query of a French director --Lines for J.B. my yearling son --Montesi reads a poem by Alan Swallow:Memorial poem --When truth is loyal --Tobias and the fish --For Tom my student --The other side --Montesi reads poems by his students --Montesi reads poem by John Logan:Three moves.

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