[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, July 8, 1968] / Michael Mott.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 8, 1968 on two Scotch 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes.

Poet Michael Mott reads his poetry and divides his poems into those of "beginning" and those of "memory." He is introduced by an unnamed man. He reads poems about his Rimbaud, writing poetry, his adult life, and the Sisters of Charity.

Michael Mott.

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

1993

Sound recording

PCR230

A higher window --Sir John, by starlight --The coat --Maxus --Broken rings --Zodiac --Rimbaud at Marseille --The climb --Marriage --First primer --The song of the mothers and Mary --Modigliani --On a front --Now I shall never see you without that orange flower against your ear --Heels --Sense --Sonnet --Arachnis Islands --Etruscan mirror --first line of poem:[That is to say, I've reached this far and wrote]. --The green house --Classroom --first line of poem:[I climb the last stairs to my flat, it smells hot and dusty out in the August day]. --Pierre DiCosimo (The lapeds and the centaurs, The Promethean man, Venus and Mars).

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