[Poetry reading at Kent State University, July 1973] / Fielding Dawson, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder

Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio In July 1973 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Recorded by Robert J. Bertholf, while serving as Professor of English and organizer of the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University. Recording was donated to the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, where Bertholf subsequently served as Curator.

Reading by Fielding Dawson held at Kent State University in July 1973. Dawson mostly read early versions of vignettes from Tiger lilies (1984), stories from The man who changed overnight (1976), and several uncollected pieces, including three vignettes ("Three great dogs," "In memory," and "The '57 series) as they appeared in the sixth issue of the Bill Berkson's literary magazine Big sky (1973). In track nine of disc two, the audio cuts to a reading by Allen Ginsberg, in which Ginsberg mostly read poems from The fall of America (1972) and Gary Snyder read one poem, "The bath," from Turtle Island (1974).

Fielding Dawson, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder

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1973

Sound recording

CUR043

Disc 1.Fielding Dawson reading from Tiger lilies:first line:[In the beginning, in Kirkwood] --first line: [I met the Lizard and his brother Wimp] --first line:[Twilight!] --first line:[We were playing guns] --first line:[We milled around on the sidewalk on Kirkwood Road] --first line:[When my Uncle Charley came to visit] --first line:[One afternoon I came home from school, and there was Uncle Charley's truck] --first line:[A few minutes later --first line:[We'd all gone out to Uncle Charley's farm for a visit] --One snowy day. --Disc 2.first line:[One afternoon at the end of the summer] --Two great dogs --In memory --The '57 series --The girl with the pale cerulean eyes --A ship going out. --Allen Ginsberg reading:Ecologue --Mantra (unidentified) --Disc 3.Friday the thirteenth --G.S. reading poesy at Princeton --The bath /Gary Snyder --On anothers sorrow (William Blake) --Ecologue --Mantra (Om Namo Shiva).

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