[Poetry reading at Kent State University, Spring 1973] / Tom Raworth.

Recorded in the spring of 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.

The period provided for this poetry reading by Tom Raworth is spring 1973. The exact date and location are unknown. Raworth reads poems from the books Logbook, Act, Heavy light, and Lazy left hand. Raworth makes no comments during the reading, except to thank the audience when he is finished.

Tom Raworth.

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

1973

Sound recording

CUR039

No + on = noon (except when reflected) --Gaslight --Mirror mirror on the wheel --Boing --I better put a pattern around this if they're going to call it a poem --Logbook page 106 --Logbook page 291 --Logbook page 298 --Logbook page 301 --Logbook page 345 --Logbook page 356 --Logbook page 372 --Logbook page 399 --Logbook page 444 --Logbook page 453 --first line of poem:[Resolution] --Philosophical padding --Audio --Northwest Ohio --Through the border --first line of poem:[Learn it in the right order] --Describing the in on the crest of the wave --The kind doctors recommend --first line of poem:[Why do they drown] --Flit --first line of poem:[Fragments of the same enjoyment] --Unity --Sitting comfortably in trust --Song --From the rainbow tablets --Rainbow tablets continued.

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