[Lecture at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 11, 1988] / Allen Ginsberg.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 11, 1988 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.

This recording is of the second of three of Allen Ginsberg's Charles Olson Memorial Lectures delivered on March 11, 1988, titled "Fiest thought, best thought:poetry and meditation". Ginsberg lectures and reads poems by Charles Reznikoff and Jack Kerouac, and then translations by R.H. Blyth of haiku by Issa Kobayashi, Yaha, Shiki, Tairo, Buson, and Furukuni. Ginsberg discusses meditation and meditates with the audience. Ginsberg is introduced by Robert Creeley. The first and third lectures are on discs PCF094 and PCF090.

Allen Ginsberg.

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

1988

Sound recording

PCF089

first line of poem:[Suddenly we noticed that we were in darkness] /Charles Reznikoff --first line of poem:[The wind blows the rain into our faces] /Reznikoff --from Mexico City blues:17th chorus /Jack Kerouac --242nd chorus /Jack Kerouac --from haiku translated by R.H. Blyth:lines of haiku:[The dogs] /Issa Kobayashi --lines of haiku:[An umbrella] /Yaha --lines of haiku:[In the abandoned boat] /Shiki --lines of haiku:[The mountain blast] /Tairo --lines of haiku:[A rat approaches] /Buson --lines of haiku:[The old pond] /Buson --lines of haiku:[Crunch, crunch] /Furukuni.

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