[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, October 17, 1969] / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Recorded at the Millard Fillmore Room of Norton Union at the University at Buffalo on Friday, October 17, 1969 at 3:30 p.m. on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his poetry from A Coney Island of the mind, Starting from San Francisco, The secret meaning of things, Tyrannus Nix. His reading was co-sponsored by the University's English Department, the Literature and Drama committee of the Union Board, the Friends of Lockwood Library,

Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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

1969

Sound recording

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War sutra --from A Coney Island of the mind:And that's the way it always is. --from Starting from San Francisco:Underwear --New York-Albany. --from The secret meaning of things:Through the looking glass --Moscow in the wilderness, Segovia in the snow (tape experiment) --All too clearly --Bickford's Buddha -- Assassination raga. --from Tyrannus Nix:Tyrannus Nix.

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