[Poetry reading at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, November 2, 2004] / Marcella Durand, Jena Osman.

Recorded at the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo on November 2, 2004 by the Poetry Collection on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.

Following an introduction by Zack Finch, Marcella Durand performs her poetry with selections from The body, light, and solar poems. An introduction by Kristen Gallagher for Jena Osman begins at 29:36. American poet and scholar Jena Osman reads from her body of poetic work.

Marcella Durand, Jena Osman.

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

2004

Sound recording

PCR093

The proteins --In the polder lands --Yet he must have faith --from The body, light, and solar poems:Mars, to you --To Saturn.Botanic --The mechanics of formation --The formationof optics --Scale shift. --from The anatomy of oil:In a room of high round hills --Hoodoos and goblins, arsenic and salt springs --One layer over the next and another laid --One layer over the next and another creates --The ships in the thousands in the sea. --Jena Osman reading:Twister --Murder of 3,000 civilians in New York --[Ethetic lexir not?] --Imperial poetry.

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