[Poetry reading and workshop at the University at Buffalo, November 12, 1971] / Diane Di Prima.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 12, 1971 on three 60 minute Sony sound cassette. Recorded by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection.

Recording of a poetry reading by Diane Di Prima, who was feeling ill. Reading complements the women's workshop for writers which was being conducted. Di Prima entertains a lively question and answer session from the participants and discusses contemporary poetics.

Diane Di Prima.

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

1971

Sound recording

INT073

Disc 1.For Blake --Trajectory --Tipareth --San Francisco blues --To the spectre of the lecturere, long dead --Fire --The peppertree --Hitch-hikers are walking --The blackbirds --Berry pod --Meet me --West Coast life --Tea garden --Sun city --Blue as ether --Reading at Intersection: for Bobbie and Joanne --Difficulty at the beginning --How tender --So fine --Note for Grant --Letter to John Wieners on his 37th birthday --To my father -- As we sat --Small hers of antelope --Why no more drugs --In the assembled graces --To Tara --Sad in galleys --Master I may be --Night life in Caspar --Elephant power --The quarrel --The joyous. --Disc 2.Hymn --Hymn to Shiva --Canticle fo Saint Joan --Prayers to the mothers --Prayer to the ancestors of Easter --Prayer to the muse --Hymn to an unknown God --Sabat --Ave --Ode to the Sirens --Loba (excerpts).Disc 3-disc 4.lecture and question and answer.

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