[Poetry reading at the Lockwood Library, University at Buffalo, April 26, 1963] / Louis Simpson.

Recorded at the Lockwood Library Exhibition Room at the University at Buffalo on April 26, 1963 by the Poetry Collection on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

American poet Louis Simpson gives a poetry reading with selections from Good news of death and other poems as well as his new book At the end of the open road.

Louis Simpson.

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

1963

Sound recording

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from A dream of governors:To the western world --I dreamed that in a city dark as Paris. --from Good news of death and other poems:The battle. --from A dream of governors:The silent generation. --from Good news of death and other poems:The man who married Magdelene. --from The arrivistes:Summer storm. --from A dream of governors:The lover's ghost. --from At the end of the open road:The silent lover --In California --The redwoods --My father in the night commanding no --Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain --The troika --The sea in the forest --The bird --The inner part --Wind, clouds, and the delicate curve of the world --Lines written near San Francisco.

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