[Poetry and prose reading at the University at Buffalo, April 21, 1971] / Al Young.

Recorded at Diefendorf 146 at the University at Buffalo, April 21, 1971 at 8:30 p.m. on a 7 inch Ampex reel-to-reel tape.

Poet and novelist Al Young reads from his poetry collections Dancing and Song turning back into itself. He then reads from his novel Snakes. He is introduced by an unnamed man.

Al Young.

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

1971

Sound recording

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from Dancing:The dancer --Dancing in the laundromat --The John Coltrane dance --Dancing in the streets --A dance for Li Po --Dance of the infidels: in memory of Bud Powell --Dancing Pierrot --Dancing, part I --A dance for aging hipsters. --from Song turning back into itself:Loneliness --first line of poem:[Ocean sprays, Mississippi] --Oppress the digitator --Groupie --The old fashioned Cincinnatti blues for Jesse Fuller --Dear old Stockholm. --Nikki-Rosa /Nikki Giovanni (read by Young) --Snakes (excerpt)

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