[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, February 20, 1968] / Gilbert Williams.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on February 20, 1968 on a Scotch 7 inch reel-to-reel tape.

Poet Gil Williams reads from his poetry. He dedicates reading to Richard Fari??a and reads from his novel, Been down so long, looks like it's up to me.

Gilbert Williams.

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

1968

Sound recording

PCR349

reading from Richard Fari??a's Been down so long, looks like it's up to me. --Celebrations for a poet, lately dead /written by Mimi Baez Fari??a --In Blauvelt, New York --Notes from a music critic's musical evening --On a gallop --Growth --Three intellectuals on the independent --Museum piece --A tree that was above me --My brother --Two, two, two --Frozen meat --Bluehill --Possibilities --Letter to Westdale --Winter nightmare of a Finnish soldier --Before the call for supper --Over to the Delaware --Bongo trio on the independent --Deaths for Glen --Suzuki powered cowboy --In a rambler on a rally --The centaurs --Townhall concert and records --St. Stevens is bombed --Cycle poet, in black and white --On the shelf, it reminds me --Tattoo and at the doghouse --Stog, still --When you became a souvenir of traveled roads --Carson McCullers 2/19/17-9/29/67 /written by Michael Rumaker --On April 15th, 1966, Maria Jessie died at 80 --Chapped cowboy --A painting --The cowboy cyclist at the newsstand --An old man collects branches in Washington Park, Albany --Like the drums of Shostakovich.

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