[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 8, 1963] / Adrienne Rich.

Recorded at the Recital Room, Baird Hall at the University at Buffalo on November 8, 1963 by the Poetry Collection on a Sarkes 7 inch reel-to-reel tape.

Following a three minute introduction by Oscar Silverman, American poet, essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich performs her poetry. Rich also reads translations from modern Dutch poets. She reads from the Necessities of life and Snapshots of a daughter-in-law. Reading is sponsored by the Charles Abbott Reading Fund and the Friends of Lockwood Memorial Library.

Adrienne Rich.

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

1963

Sound recording

PCR276

Little aged --Rural reflections --Merely to know --Double monologue --A woman mourned by daughters --The afterwake --In the North --Peeling onions --Ghost of a chance --The lag --The roofwalker --[translation of Gerrit Actherberg]:Accountability (Gerrit Acterberg) --Standing figure / haret octovare --Our family / leo frauman --Thirty-three --Some degrees of fever --For example --Like this together --A severed hand keeps tingling --In the woods --The trees.

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