[Poetry reading at the University at California, Berkeley on October 9, 1964] / John Logan.

Recorded at the University at California, Berkeley on October 9, 1964 on a 7 inch 3M reel-to-reel tape.

Poetry reading by John Logan at the University at California, Berkeley. Reading was sponsored by the Committee of Arts and Lectures and the Department of English. Logan provides introductory comments about his poems and discusses James Joyce, the influence his students have had on his poems, Pablo Picasso, a near drowning experience in Chicago, and the death of e.e. cummings. He was introduced by Thomas Parkinson. At the time, Logan was a professor at St. Mary's College in California.

John Logan.

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

1964

Sound recording

LOG032

Disc 1.The house that Jack built (last part) --Lines for a young wanderer in Mexico --The brothers: two saltimbanques --To a young poet who fled (before I could say he was good) --A trip to four or five towns. --Disc 2.Spring of the thief --The zoo --Lines for a young man who talked --The weeping --The rescue --Poem, slow to come, on the death of Cummings.

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