[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 7, 1972] / Morton Marcus.

Recorded at 233 Norton Hall at the University at Buffalo on March 7, 1972 by the Poetry Collection on a Scotch 7 inch reel-to-reel.

Following a brief introduction by John Clarke, film critic, historian and Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus reads his poetry. He reads from Origins, Where the oceans cover us, and The Santa Cruz Mountain poems. The poem "Look closely" is divided between the end of the first CD and the beginning of the second CD.

Morton Marcus.

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

1972

Sound recording

PCR206

I place three phone calls --A memory --On the death of Kenneth Patchen --Hand --The last words of Vicente Gomez --The victim --3 tailor songs --Watching your gray eyes --Pelicans --Thats it, horse --Leaves --Ahead, tree shadow --I hear the dead --Sometimes the bones --Seven rituals --Look closely --Serenade to a line --Home after three months --The return --Directions --Conversations --Lovers --3 men --5 games of the senses, the game of touch --Baldness (ends) --[A change?] --Gypsy music --The descent --Toward certain divorce --The visitant --An old man --To the tall spirit.

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