[Canadian Poetry Festival at the University at Buffalo, October 16, 1980, poetry readings] / Daphne Marlatt ... [et al].

Recorded on a Ampex 7 inch reel-to-reel tape on October 16, 1980 at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo.

Recording of the Canadian Poetry Festival's opening reading by Daphne Marlatt, Robert Hogg, Douglas Jones and Fred Wah. The poets were introduced by Robert Creeley.

Daphne Marlatt ... [et al].

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

1980

Sound recording

PCF052

Disc 1.Daphne Marlatt reading:Imagine: a town --Steveston (B.C.) --23rd 7:45 a.m. --Abandoned --Crossing by --Mem sahib --Speak Malaysian --Who used to live here --Arriving --Begin with a --From somewhere --The car --Winter solstice poem: lunaide. --Robert Hogg reading:The command --Born in the sun --Of light --Reach down into Ganesh --The law of the mythologem is --Not to condition the sun --A certain peace --Nocturne 2 --Song of the goodly craftsman --Prayer --Sunrise --Before class --A full moon in Scorpio --Picnic --Roots --Heat lightning --Kora and Ka --Rocking backwards on the F train. --Disc 2.Douglas Jones reading:This is madness --From six --Dilemmas --I annihilate --Black evil --The diamond sutra --Love is what would leave you totally exposed. --Fred Wah reading:Opening up to you --If one falls and --Stoled in the night --Hermes is a package of crackers --Translating translating Appollinaire --I like the purity of all things seen --Be careful story --Father it is fall --I thought where I came from we grow up --Our origins magnetic lines across an ocean --I lie here and wait for life again --No foolin' I thought I was gonna die --Not so much all of us dying --What's it like to hold yourself in for a while --Words fly from our mouths as leaves --Death's stick's tool --Next spring --Outside it's snowing --Loke death dog died --Runs the cycle, the ground --In the arms of the family --My father hurting at the table --The first bridge was in Trail, B.C. --Baseball the --Breathe dust like you breathe wind --The buildup --As he leaves her --Sounds of o and ree --mmmmmmmmm --World --Trumpet --When you die it snows.

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