[Poetry reading at the Buffalo Festival of Arts, Rockwell Auditorium, Buffalo State College, March 5, 1968] / Allen Ginsberg.

Recorded in the Rockwell Auditorium at Buffalo State College at the Buffalo Festival of the Arts in Buffalo, New York on March 5, 1968 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Recording acquired by the Poetry Collection.

Poet Allen Ginsberg performed as part of the Buffalo Festival of the Arts. Robert Creeley provided the introduction noting that "Ginsberg makes possibilty the way one might make bread, clothing." Ginsberg began the reading chanting the mantra "Hare Krishna." Ginsberg read early versions of poems that would all be included in the collection Planet news, published in November 1968 by City Lights Books. He concluded the reading by chanting the "Maitreya" mantra.

Allen Ginsberg.

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

1968

Sound recording

INT164B

Disc 1.Hare Krishna --Sunset S.S. Azemour --Galilee shore --Death news --Waking in New York --Drowse murmurs --First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels --Carmel Valley --Chances R --Uptown New York --City midnight junk strains --Pentagon exorcism --Television was a baby crawling toward that death chamber. --Poem written in the fifth hour of LSD. --Disc 2Wales visitation --Maitreya.

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