[Poetry reading] / Edward Dorn.

Recorded by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel. The date and the location of this reading by Edward Dorn are not specified, but it is thought to be in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1964. The title on the original container of the recording is "Private reading of new poems to be published as 'Hands up.'" Poetry Collection acquired recording from De Loach.

Dorn reads poems that are mostly from the book Hands up which was published in 1964 by Totem Press. One poem Dorn reads from this group is an early version of The sea corner, of the eye. The other poems are from The newly fallen (1961) and Geography (1965).

Edward Dorn.

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1964?

Sound recording

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Hands up --The deer's eye the hunter's nose --Oh don't ask why --Obituary --The sea corner, of the eye --Hemlocks --On the debt my mother owed to Sears Roebuck --The song is ended for Nellie Lecher --In my youth I was a tireless dancer --The poet --Time blonde ---Unlike music --The air of June sings --In the morning --Time to burn --The pronouncement --Parlor car beer --The biggest killing --Prayers for the people of the world --Like a message on Sunday --Geranium --The open road --The song --Our tent --The argument is --The hammer lot --And thus --If it should ever come --Three farm poems, 1. Goodbye to Illinois --The land below.

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