[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, April 11, 1968] / Milton Kessler.

Recorded at the Millard Fillmore Room in Norton Union at the University at Buffalo on April 11, 1968 at 8 p.m. Recorded by the Poetry Collection on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Following a brief monologue by an unnamed man, Max Wickert introduces University at Buffalo graduate and poet, Milton Kessler. Kessler reads poems from A road came once (1963) and Called home (1967). Reading was sponsored by the University at Buffalo, the Department of English, the Friends of Lockwood Library and the Charles Abbott Reading Fund.

Milton Kessler.

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

1968

Sound recording

PCR170

from Called home:Letter --Called home --A bombardier's landscape --A boy --The walk back --Enough --A dream of weeping --Davy --Chad Gadya --Anne --Summer's end --The voice of the soldier --Surpise. --from A road came once:Second conception --To Paul, for the pastors --Anniversary poem --Beyond anguish --Him to Lorriane --The lynching --A string of dust.

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