[Poetry reading at the Canisius College, November 20, 1970] / Allen Ginsberg.

Recorded at Canisius College on November 20, 1970 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Recorded by Allen De Loach and acquired by the Poetry Collection.

Poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poetry at a reading at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. He reads early poems, including Kaddish. He performs some poems, A western ballad, for instance, with musical accompaniment.

Allen Ginsberg.

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

1970

Sound recording

INT182B

Disc 1:performance of Blake's songs:The schoolboy --On another's sorrow. --The trembling of the veil --In society --Marijuana notation --The bricklayer's lunch hour --A western ballad --My alba --Malest cornifici tuo catullo --Love poem on a them by Walt Whitman --A strange new cottage in Berkeley --Sather Gate illumination --Back on Times Square, dreaming of Times Square --An asphodel --Song --Kaddish (excerpt) --music and mantra chanting. --Disc 2.performance of Blake's songs:Sunflower --Nurse's song. --The lion for real --Who'll be kind --Holy Ghost on the nod over the body of bliss --Uptown New York City --On Neal's ashes --Imaginary universes --Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing --Friday the thirteenth --Future Buddha chant.

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