[Poetry reading at Central Park Grill, September 11, 1986] / Robert Creeley.

Recorded at the Central Park Grill in Buffalo, N.Y. for Writer's Cramp Series on September 11, 1986 on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette by Paul Hogan, who donated the recording to the Poetry Collection.

Poet and professor, Robert Creeley, reads his poetry with extended explanatory notes. He reads from 1962's For love, 1986's Memory gardens and poems which would form 1990's Windows. Poet speaks of his youth in New England, including his parents, his genealogy of being Scots-Irish, his exposure to Robert Frost's poetry, his acquaintance with artificial intelligence leader Marvin Minsky, who made him his first radio. Poet addresses the challenges of aging as both a man and a poet. He shares anecdotes about his time spent with Ed Dorn and Allen Ginsberg at Naropa and also with artist Jim Dine. Creeley discusses time he spent in Ithaca, N.Y. as a guest reader for the Signet Society on April 11, 1985

Robert Creeley.

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

1986

Sound recording

HOG028

from For Love:The door (for Robert Duncan).from Memory gardens:Memory gardens --Flicker --My own stuff --Window --Winter morning --Questions --Lovers --Funeral --Supper --Classical --Mother's photograph --Valentine --Lecture --Back --The doctor --Lost --Old --There --Language --Days --Heavenly Hannah. --from Windows:Song --I would have known you anywhere --Stairway to heaven --The company --After Pasternak --After Frost --Fragment for Ed.

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