[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 3, 1967] / Ruthven Todd.

Recorded in Diefendorf Hall, room 146 at the University at Buffalo on November 3, 1967 4 p.m. on a Scotch 60 minute sound cassette.

Poet Ruthven Todd reads his poetry from his books. He is introduced possibly by Karl Gay. Reading was sponsored by the Abbott Reading Fund, Friends of Lockwood Memorial Library, and the Dept. of English.

Ruthven Todd.

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

1967

Sound recording

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A mantelpiece of shells --first line of poem:[Mountains of prejudice and ignorance surrounding their inquiries had to be climbed or leveled down] --first line of poem:[This is a creature of extreme pertinence] --first line of poem:[Beyond the dark red barns lines white around the windows and the doors] --first line of poem:[Here where the great grapes will not grow] --first line of poem:[3,000 miles and nearly half a year away from a drab November afternoon] --Marginally on a letter of Keats --Various ends --Troutflies --An upper left incisor --Two legged cat --first line of poem:[After the last echoing of the final trump, then, they say the seas will vanish or dry up] --first line of poem:[With strut and scratch, the rooster patrols the terraces and the path outside my open door] --first line of poem:[Once through a peasant pots in a dry brown hair upon the olive table in that magic from] --first line of poem:[Living now under the same Spanish sky, I watch with wonderment the shapes that still swell, flush, or surge in paint of clay from the unstemmable source] --Excess --Meeting again --In memoriam, my father, 29th of April 1944.

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