[Poetry and short fiction reading] / Bernhard Frank.

Recorded on a 90 minute Realistic sound cassette, at various times from 1973 to 1976.

Poetry reading of Bernhard Frank reading from American gothic manuscript and other works over a period of few years.

Bernhard Frank.

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

1976?

Sound recording

CUR134

from American gothic (1973):The first day upon taking their child to school --Monarch (Danaus Archippus) --Requiescat in pace --After illness --Ailing Apollo --Samson II --After Rodin's Orpheus and Eurydice --Rites of passage I --Rites of passage II --Rites of passage III --Rites of passage IV --Rites of passage V --Like the expanding universe --Cocoon --Icarus --She turns nevertheless --Cracked by lightning --The voices of chaos (for a young father) --Fish-fossil --Butterfly --33 RPM --Japanese print --Excurse. --from Lazarus passed (March 1975):Youth --For John -Poetry reading --On his 44th birthday --Love poem --She arranges her pain --Making it --After our betrust --The artist is a northbound car on the southbound highway --& born between sleep & --Japanese print II --Narcissus burning helpless --Clock II --Avis --Resonance --Family photo --Gym time. --reading December 1975:Letter --Christmas Day '75 --Japanese cup painting --The starlings --Something akind to death this having --Woman in park --Alexandros to Hephaistion --Hephaistion to Alexandros --The liking of St. Joseph --first line of poem:Like Venice the water passes around and under me. --reading from November 1976:Passing by state hospital --Lazarus passed (1976 version) --For George --Time and tennis (prose piece published in 1975) --Something extraordinary.

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