[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, July 25, 1961] / W.D. Snodgrass.

Recorded at the Conference Theatre at the University at Buffalo on July 25, 1961 on three 45 minute Scotch sound cassettes.

Poet W.D. Snodgrass reads at the University at Buffalo, probably in 1961, the year after his Pulitzer Prize award in poetry. Snodgrass reads and provides numerous anecdotes about his poetry. He reads poetry about mud, surgery, working in a hospital, teaching at Cornell University, his struggle with academia and his long time studying at the University of Iowa. He claims to not "mean", but only "feel" out of bitterness, the things he writes about scholars. He talks about his daughter and the poems he wrote to her after his divorce. Snodgrass also gives a long introduction to a poem about a flood and its impact on a community. He is introduced by Oscar A. Silverman. The reading was part of the U.U.A.B. literary Arts Summer Poetry Festival.

W.D. Snodgrass.

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

1961

Sound recording

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The marsh --September in the park --The operation --The campus on the hill --April inventory --Winter poem --Lying awake --Lobsters in the window --Flash flood --A flat one --Exorcism.

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