[Poetry reading at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, February 17, 1993] / Wystan Curnow.

Recorded at the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo on February 17, 1993 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.

Following announcements and a five minute introduction by Charles Bernstein, New Zealand poet, critic, and editor Wystan Curnow performs his poetry reading and shows slides. Curnow performs poetry from Back in the USA and Cancer daybook, and an upcoming work he titles The lives of the artists. He was serving as a visiting professor and a Poetics fellow at the University of Buffalo during the reading. Recording ends abruptly at the end of track 8, then resumes.

Wystan Curnow.

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

1993

Sound recording

PCR072

from Back in the USA:Place names name places --Look here New York --What weather to be under.from Cancer daybook:Wheres the humour in a tumour --Cut it out --Now that I have it --What was the point --The two of us --Tremeloes --And the living --Leap (for Sue) --Gut tack slot --I'm the macho man --Xeroxed cicatrix --The growth of word meaning --Chemotherapy is --Talk to me some more --Dedication (for the life of me) --Former triple treat --Chemotherapy is --Lettuce olives bean sprouts --One an other --Have it in for/ --She shells surgery --Two one side not. --from Lives of the artists:Dutch artists' trains--Leftovers Byron --Eggs --Spaghetti Caruso --Smoked Bacon Dumas --Scrambled eggs Eliot --Perch Goutier --Mutton leg Kent --Venir schnitzel Gustaf Mala --Michelangelo pudding --Calf cutlet Ruebens --Quail George Sand --Jules Verne pig's trotter --Duck van Dyke --Herring fillets Siegfried Wagner --GWTW: selected stills --Progress never came without a fight --Smeared in oil.

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