[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 5, 1980] / May Swenson.

Recorded at the Poetry Collection, Buffalo, N.Y. on November 5, 1980 on a 7 inch Maxell reel-to-reel tape.

Poet May Swenson reads. University at Buffalo professor and poet Irving Feldman introduces her to the crowd. Swenson reads poems and provides anecdotes about aging, dentistry, Cape Cod, Buffalo Bills football, and visiting the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore.

May Swenson.

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

1980

Sound recording

PCR312

Early mornings:By morning --At breakfast --Early morning, Cape Cod --The exchange. --Southbound on the freeway --Speed --Bison crossing near Mount Rushmore --The north rim --Lion --Stony beach --How everything happens --Overboard --Unconscious case of beauty --Body by house --How to be old --On its way --View to the north --The thickening matt --After the dentist --Teeth --This morning --Walking in the village after many years --A Navajo blanket --The summer that I was ten --Question --Feel me --It snowed in New York.

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