[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 2, 1972] / L.E. Sissman.

Recorded at 231 Norton Union, University at Buffalo on November 2, 1972 at 3:30 p.m. on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Following an introduction by Albert Cook, L.E. Sissman performs his poetry for the University audience.

L.E. Sissman.

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

1972

Sound recording

PCR299

from Dying: an introduction:Peace comes to Still River, Mass. --Marriage 1958 --Rockville, Illinois 1965 --New York, 1967 --New York, 1968 --30,000 gone, 1968 --On seeing verses by a colleague in an ad --To your uterus, an uncompleted call --The U.S. poetry academy --from Dying: an introduction:In and out severance of connections --Magistrate --Exilium --In and out, a home away from home. --A disappearance in West Cedars St. --Our literary heritage --Riverside Drive, 1929 --Hotel Shamot, Boston, 1946 --Deus ex machina, Flushing, 1966 --Lament for the makers, including me, 1967 --We rot and rot and rot and rot and rot --The Big Rock Candy Mountain --first line of poem:[On a summer's day in the month of May] --first line of poem:[As he roamed, he sang a song] --first line of poem:[On the buzzing of the bees] --first line of poem:[Oh the farmer and his son] --first line of poem:[So the very next day, they hiked away]. --Cancer: a dream.

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