[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, December 11, 1967] / Mac Hammond, William Sylvester.

Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. on December 11, 1967 at 4 p.m. at the Norton Conference Theatre. Recording made on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape.

University of Buffalo professors and poets, William Sylvester and Mac Hammond perform their works as part of a program for poetry with accompanying stereophonic and electronic equipment. Sylvester lectures about the methods he has used in order to record two experimental poems. Hammond reads from his new book Cold turkey and reads his first poem in the dark.

Mac Hammond, William Sylvester.

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

1967

Sound recording

PCR137

William Sylvester performs two poems and lectures. --Mac Hammond readings:The black judges of hell --Same time, same place --The bank --The supermarket --Right turn only --The mad scientist --The robot --The creature from outer space --The space ranger --Hymn to the planets --A funeral --Fourth of July --Halloween --Thanksgiving --Christmas --New Year's --Stare's Family in a birthday ode.

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