[Poetry reading at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, July 13, 1979] / John Frederick Nims.

Recorded at the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo on July 13, 1979, by the Poetry Collection on a 90 minute Memorex sound cassette.

Following an eight minute introduction by Max Wickert, poet John Frederick Nims performs a traditional poetry reading with poems from The iron pastoral, The powers of heaven and earth: new and selected poems and Zany in denim. This reading concludes his Edward H. Butler chair.

John Frederick Nims.

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

1979

Sound recording

PCR241

Dollar bill --Others in alley with a pipe of lead --New Years Eve --The young Ionia --The evergreen --Polonaise --Anacreon's answer --Love and death --With fingering hand --When I've outlived three plastic hearts --Epitaph for a light lady --The observatory ode --In Greek of Byzantium --First date --A question for Yeats --Slapstick I (meditation for the morning: linguistics and the kiss).

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