[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, October 5, 1978] / Allen Ginsberg.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo in the Kiva Room on October 5, 1978 on a 60 minute Scotch sound cassette. Recorded by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection. Part of tracks 6 and 7 are blank.

Poet Allen Ginsberg returns to the University at Buffalo after three years for a spirited reading. He begins with a song from William Blake's Songs of innocence and experience. Ginsberg reads poems he wrote after a recent two week retreat in the Rocky Mountains and then he emotionally talks about the passing of his father and reads poems dealing with this topic. He also reads many of his love poems. He closes with the long poem Plutonian ode which he wrote as a result of anti-nuclear war protesting at Rocky Flatts, Colorado with Peter Orlovsky.

Allen Ginsberg.

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

1978

Sound recording

INT037

My pretty rose tree --Cabin in the Rockies --Gospel nobel truths --Don't grow old --Father death blues (song) --Father guru --Drive all blames into one --The rune --I lay love on my knee --Lack love --Punk rock your my big crybaby --What's dead? --Manhattan May Day midnight --Plutonian ode.

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