[Poetry reading at Boston College, Boston, Mass., October 11, 1972] / Edward Dorn.

Recorded at Boston College in Boston, Mass. on October 11, 1972 on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.

Harvey Bialy introduces Edward Dorn. Dorn began by reading a poem that he co-wrote with his wife Jennifer Dunbar. Many of the poems that Dorn read were early versions or poems that were uncollected, including a group of six poems that were published in the first issue of Tens (July 1972). Disc 2 features the recorded dialogue betweem Robert Creeley and Bobbie Creeley titled Listen. Listen was written by Robert Creeley, published by Black Sparrow Press with monoprints by Bobbie Creeley in 1972, and later published in Robert Creeley's Collected prose (1984).

Edward Dorn.

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1972

Sound recording

PCR368

Disc 1.Edward Dorn reading:Where we live --A message from the incarcerated --first line of poem:[The vegetable cannot speak] --first line of poem:[Very early Freud is modern] --first line of poem:[The burden of proof is heavy] --first line of poem:[Negativity has positively] --first line of poem:[Now over the head] --Vowels --Return to nature --Caution --Development --Anxiety --Interview --first line of poem:[By the way, what kind of writer is he?] --What Lil read on the wall in the ladies' room in Sundance, North Dakota --Item --Lil's soliloquy --first line of poem:[The United States is the first country to] --On will --first line of poem:[Before the glaciers, an ancient river system flowed through here] --In the streets of this great town, there is an exercised determination] --In defense of pure sensation --Los caballos cimarrones --Coinage --Two-part poem --The truck of ours (with Kid --The loathesome cowboys --Curved glass --first line of poem:[One poetry cannot be more true than another] --first line of poem:[A paradox is something that is unbelievable but] --first line of poem:[In this ancient coastal town] --first line of poem:[This democracy leads naturally] --first line of poem:Real alligators float through the chilling nightmare] --first line of poem:[Unpack your dreams and stay awhile] --first line of poem:[The man's politics are more or less profoundly beside the point] --Lunch time --Trolley shot --first line of poem:[Coors is the Hamm's of the west] --first line of poem:[Suddenly down a long road] --first line of poem:[There's a tree standing in the middle of the road, waving its] --from Gunslinger:The cycle --The poet lets his tongue hang all the way out (early version of 'The poet lets his tongue hang down'). --Listen /Robert Creeley and Bobbie Creeley.

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