[Readings at the University at Buffalo, March 30, 1967] / Joseph Heller, Leonard Cohen.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 30, 1967 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Sunset reel-to-reel tape.

Disc 1 features a poetry reading by Joseph Heller as part of the U.B. spring reading series. Heller was introduced by John Barth. Disc 2 features a performance of poetry and song by Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen. The exact date of this spring 1967 performance of Cohen at the University at Buffalo is unknown.

Joseph Heller, Leonard Cohen.

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

1967

Sound recording

INT189A

Disc 1.Joseph Heller reading of Catch 22. --Disc 2.Leonard Cohen poetry reading:This is for you --first line of text from Beautiful losers:[A few days after her baptism] --first line of poem:[Long ago scene I wakened in my bed] --Suzanne --The stranger --Master song --O God your morning is perfect --I'm writing this to say goodbye --Love calls you by your name.

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