[Poetry reading at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, the University at Buffalo, March 27, 1980] / Michael McClure.

Recorded at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures at the University at Buffalo on March 27, 1980 on a 7 inch Ampex reel-to-reel tape. The reading was held off-campus at the Shuper House.

This recording is of the poetry reading given by Michael McClure as part of the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures at the University at Buffalo. He was introduced by John Daley. He reads from his recent work, Antechamber, Fragments of Perseus, and from some earlier works. The reading is followed by a discussion session. The lectures McClure gave earlier in the series may be found on PCF108A, PCF108B and PCF109A in the Poetry Collection's digitized audio collection.

Michael McClure.

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

1980

Sound recording

PCF109B

Disc 1.from AntechamberThe rains of February --Watching the vulture --Borrowed feet --Old men sleeping in speeding cars (Robert Bly) --True wildness is comprised of acts --To the drive-in teller at the bank --Freewheelin's tattoo --Poem with a gift --Emily Dickinson's house --Poetics. --Yes, teach machines --Revive the pleistocene --The flame is ours --For Bob Dylan, My eyes are wide explosions --Begun on Mount Tamalpais --Antechamber --Ah yes, how perfect to be within a dream --Scarlet night --The quantum mechanics of black holes --How beautiful gravity is --The death of Kin Chuen Louie. --Disc 2.Listen Lawrence --Watching the stolen rose --Sure! Let me burst again and see who I am --Dream, the night of December 23rd --Let energy flow throught the system --discussion.

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