[Poetry reading at the Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, Massachussetts, November 5 and December 11, 1972] / Charley Shively, Charles Stein, and John Wieners,

Recorded at the Cambridge Artists Cooperative in Cambridge, Mass. on November 5 and December 11, 1972 on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.

Poetry readings by Charles Shively, Charles Stein, John Wieners, and an unidentified female poet held at the Cambridge Artists Cooperative in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 5 and December 11, 1972. The initial poem read by Wieners was "For Huncke." Before reading the poem, Wieners said "I'm going to read two poems in this book that the first one I'm in doubt about. It's called 'For Huncke' and the only reason I chose it today is that I read it to him last night. He was in a semi-coma, but the impetus of writing the poem at least came home when I was able to show it to him at St. Mark's Church where there was a monster inspirational poetry competition yesterday with everyone from R'lene Dahlberg reading, to Kenneth Koch, and Robert Creeley making animal sounds and rolling on the floor afterwards, so it was not a bad afternoon. We came in this morning to be here, and we had gone up to R'lene Dahlberg's afterwards and I read this to Huncke in the kitchen."

Charley Shively, Charles Stein, and John Wieners,

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1972

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Disc 1.Charles Stein reading:The danger --first line of poem:[I noticed] --first line of poem:[Old chair, hello!] --first line of poem:[Neptune on stony island] --first line of poem:[There are] --first line of poem:[The ancestors] --first line of poem:[He is looking at something] --first line of poem:[Misty morning] --first line of poem:[Memory's red city] --The day of the bell --Buzz saws --first line of poem:[Pile of coins] --The shapes of time --Spaces --first line of poem:[The danger].[unidentified woman poet reading and singing] --first line of poem:[Blood-red tulips and I die]. --Disc 2.Charley Shively reading:first line of poem:[In avocado splendor] --Inner sense --Fort Ancient --first line of poem:[Visions are forced upon me] --An offering --Candles from our eyes --Wandering through fields --Sunshine --first line of poem:[Pilgrim, Mayflower, this Thanksgiving] --first line of poem:[In our] --first line of poem:[Antique] --first line of poem:[Paraphernalia, perfume, machinery, empires] --first line of poem:[John, come back] --Filigree fishnet --first line of poem:[Among Walnut Hills] --John Wieners reading:For Huncke --153 Avenue C --Not on your book --Not this agony of love, without being loved --Goodbye --Cage --first line of poem:[Must it be always set as fame or fate] --The flame (early version) --Poetry and the social --New beaches --Drug fantasy --The lights in town --Grey sabbath (early version) --Hunger --Fugitive --Vulture --Yonnie --first line of poem:[Some men seek silence] --first line of poem:[I cannot move through the hallways]. --Charley Shively reading:first line of poem:[An incredible star laid down in my bed this morning] --first line of poem:[Astro-leakage] --first line of poem:[Into catacombs come Charles Burchfield trees] --Exercise --first line of poem:[Acorn breaking feet] --Some lovely part--first line of poem:[Bracelets and earrings] /Unidentified --first line of poem:[Tomatoes behind glass] --first line of poem:[Salt, sweat] --first line of poem:[Soft freckles, mustache] --first line of poem:[Each flower, seed, potentially]. --Disc 3.Charley Shively reading:The feast.

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