[Poetry reading at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y., May 15, 1987] / Diane Di Prima.

Recorded at the Allentown Community Center in May 1987 by Paul Hogan who donated a copy of the recording made on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette.

Prose and poetry reading by Diane Di Prima. Di Prima reads spirited and personal works about her family, religion and her Italian heritage.

Diane Di Prima.

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

1987

Sound recording

HOG077B

first line of prose:[My earliest sense of what it means] --first line of prose:[My grandfather and I had our secrets] --April fool birthday poem for Grandpa --A rant in and for Buffalo, 1985 --Dream poem about Reagan, September 24, 1981 --Answer to her poem I swear --first line of poem:[It is still news to her that passion] --The loba sings to her cub --Reed gatherers --The loba recovers the memory of a mare --High heart at Deer Leap --first line of poem:[Sly is a mountain] --first line of poem:[It's not quite Buffalo stew, but it'll have to do].

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