[Poetry reading in Buffalo, N.Y, March 19, 1968] / Irving Feldman ... [et al.]

Recorded at the Strike for Knowledge reading in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 19, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Poetry reading by Irving Feldman, Robert Creeley, John Logan, and Denise Levertov held in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 19, 1968. The event was a "Strike for Knowledge Reading" in protest against the Vietnam War. In addition to reading his own poems, Creeley read one poem by his daughter, beginning "I love Halloween." Logan read from the 1968 National Book Award acceptance speech of Robert Bly, one poem by Bly, one poem by e.e. cummings, and one poem of his own. Feldman and Levertov read their own poetry.

Irving Feldman ... [et al.]

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

1968

Sound recording

INT187B

Disc 1.Irving Feldman reading:The prophet --Politics --Goya --In time of troubles --Elegy for a suicide --Reredos showing the assumption into heaven of Frank O'Hara --The father. --Robert Creeley reading:The moon --first line of poem:[I love Halloween] (by Creeley's daughter) --first line of poem:[Back where things were] --Chicago --first line of poem:[Pleasures of pain] --Diction --first line of poem:[Late, the words, late] --first line of poem:[Happy love, this] --The province. --John Logan reading:1968 National Book Award acceptance speech (by Robert Bly) --Counting the small-boned bodies (Bly) --first line of poem:[i sing of Olaf glad and big] (e.e. cummings) --Lines on locks (or jail and the Erie Canal). --Disc 2.Denise Levertov reading:For Paul and Sally Goodman --Translation from a Vietnamese poem --The cold spring --A tree telling of Orpheus --An interim.

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