[Poetry reading at Buffalo State College, May 6, 1969] / Jonathan Williams.

Recorded at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York on May 6, 1969 by Allen De Loach on a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired recording from De Loach.

Poetry reading by Jonathan Williams. Poet reads works from the collection An ear in Bartram's tree (1969).

Jonathan Williams.

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

1969

Sound recording

INT173B

Jonathan Williams reading:O for a muse of fire! --The adhesive autopsy of Walt Whitman --Dangerous calamus emotions --Those troublesome disguises --Some southpaw pitching --A week from the Big Pigeon to the little Tennessee River --Two pastorals for Samuel Palmer at Shoreham, Kenti --The electronic lyre, strung with poets' sinews --Cobwebbery --The flower-hunter in the fields --The familiars --Heart-song dear to the American people --Everybody twist! --White Anglo-Saxon Protestant invocation

or, don't let a wet W.A.S.P. get his shit hot --An air-express collect, fifty-pound watermelon for Senator James O. Eastland --Riddling fish in a racist's barrel in Creep County, Georgia --Dealer's choice and the dealer shuffles --Symphony no. 3, in D minor --Symphony no. 4, in G major --Symphony no. 5, in C sharp minor --Paean to Dvo?

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