[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, February 21, 1968] / Burton Raffel.

Recorded at University at Buffalo on February 21, 1968 on a Scotch 7 inch reel-to-reel tape.

Following an introduction by unnamed woman, poet Burton Raffel performs his poetry reading.

Burton Raffel.

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

1968

Sound recording

PCR263

Spend your afternoon --Stefan at three --Villa Lobos --Saturday, August, Belgium --Bean in your eye, moat in mine --Epigraph to book Some sort of Solomon --Academic freedom --Help stamp out democracy --Oh friends we've seen --Danish darkness --Stefan in Amsterdam --Highway radio --Buffalo, 1967 --Black power --first line of poem:[Winter in the wooden house] --first line of poem:[I carried a chair] --first line of poem:[In a slippery room, half an attic] --first line of poem:[I was already outside a public exhibit] --first line of poem: [Come here little thing] --The Pinocchio poem --first line of poem:[I remember a roar, like radio play] --Owed.

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