[Elizabeth Willis interview and reading] /

Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. on November 23, 1986 for Spoken Arts Radio. Paul Hogan donated a copy of the recording made on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette.

Paul Hogan interviews poet and University at Buffalo Ph.D. graduate student in English, Elizabeth Willis. She discusses her travels in Indonesia and its influence upon her poetry. She describes the Indonesian folk art of shadow puppetry. Willis reads her own poetry and discusses her approach to writing poetry.

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

1986

Sound recording

HOG007B

Poem in three rooms --We have entered the volcano --Gunung Agung poem --At Halley's passing.

Hear@Buffalo: The Poetry Collection’s Audio Archive

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lib-pc002-HOG007B.mp3