[Poetry reading at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto Italy, July 9, 1967] / Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Guiseppe Ungaretti.

Recorded originally at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy on July 9, 1967 on a 5 inch Lafayette reel-to-reel tape.

This recording is of Ezra Pound reading from The cantos and of Guiseppe Ungaretti and Allen Ginsberg reading poetry in Italian and in English translation alternately at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, held from June 30 to July 16, 1967. The official album of the reading was published by Applause Productions in 1968 as "Ezra Pound reading his Cantos", for the series The World's Great Poets Reading at the Festival of Two Worlds. The reading by Ungaretti and Ginsberg was held on July 9.

Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Guiseppe Ungaretti.

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1967

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PCR369

Canto LXXXI (Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom) /Ezra Pound --Canto XCII (And from this mount were blown) /Pound--Canto CXV (The scientists are in terror) /Pound --Canto CVI (And was her daughter like that) /Pound --Canto III (I sat on the Dogana's steps) /Pound --Canto XLIX (For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses) /Pound --Canto XVI (And before hell mouth

dry plain) /Pound --first line of poem:[Who can recognize it?] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[In the desert, remnants in the mind of an image seen long ago] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[Each year, as I discover that February's sensitive] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[Secret rose, the instant I start up recalling] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[Let waking, sleep end] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[Kite, grip me in azure cloth] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[Suffocated by death rattles] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[Looking out from a window] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[All the sudden a war tears dawn] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[Shudder, you are shaken incessantly] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg --first line of poem:[You shattered the many immense gray scattered stones] /Ungaretti, Ginsberg.

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