[Fred Wah poetry reading] /

Recorded at the Allentown Community Center in Buffalo, N.Y. in February 1987 and broadcast on April 12, 1987 via Spoken Arts Radio. Paul Hogan donated a copy of the recording made on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette.

Paul Hogan features part of a February 1987 poetry performance by Fred Wah.

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

1987

Sound recording

HOG052A

first line of poem:[Father, when you died you left me] --first line of poem:[My father hurt] --August 8th, in Canton --So what have I got going besides this father list --first line of poem:[About a year after you died, I saw you] --Monday, August 7th, we travel all day --Elite --Elite III --first line of poem:[When you return from China] --first line of poem:[Your father owned the Regal] --Number seven --Number nine --Maybe my grandmother's went north --Syntax --first line of poem:[You want to know until I found you in your skin].

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