[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 22, 1977] / Ai.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 22, 1977 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Poet Ai is introduced by English student, Ken Broklin. Ai performs selections from her book Cruelty and the in-progress manuscript for her next book, The killing floor.

Ai.

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1977

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Twenty year marriage --Abortion --The tenant farmer --I have got to stop loving you ---- Young farm woman alone --Woman to man --One man down --Hangman --The hitchhiker --The suicide --Woman --Child beater --Everything: Eloy, Arizona, 1956 --Cuba, 1962 --Jericho (Killing Floor) --The mortician's twelve-year-old son --Lesson, lesson --She didn't even wave --Ice --He kept on burning --The ravine --Father and son --29 (a dream in two parts).

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