[Poetry reading] / Jonathan Williams, Thomas Meyer.

Recorded on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. The place and date of the recording are unknown, but it is possibly from the 1970s at Kent State University. It was recorded by Robert Bertholf.

Poetry reading by Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer.

Jonathan Williams, Thomas Meyer.

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

197-?

Sound recording

CUR045

Disc 1.O for a muse of fire --Finger exercises --Gaius Valerius Catullus --Sir Edward Elgar --Charles Ives --Leos Janacek --Bunk Johnson --Carl Nielson --Charlie Parker --Francis Poulenc --Erik Satie --Jean Sibelius --Jack Spicer. --reading from Blues and roots/rue and bluets:Bea Hensley hammers an iron Chinquapin leaf on his anvil near spruce pine --Daddy Bostain, the Moses of the Wing Community Moonshiners laments from his deathbed the spiritual estate --A ride in a blue Chevy from Alum Cave Trail to Newfound Gap --The ancient of days --Three sayings from Highlands, North Carolina --Dear Reverend Carl C. McIntires --The flower-hunter in the fields --The familiars. --reads from Imaginary postcards:1 --4 --5 --9 --26 --35 --40. --from Adventures with a twelve inch pianist beyond the blue horizon:March 22, who is little Enis?. --from A celestial centennial reverie for Charles Edward Ives:Hawthorne --The Alcotts --Thoreau. --reads from Untinears & antennae for Maurice Revel:A valediction for my father --The photographer looks at the prints and turns poet --Resolution --Shotgun Shuba thinks middle-aged Slovakian thoughts about the Dodgers one evning in Ohio along the Mahoning River --My quaker-atheist friend. --Disc 2.reads form The umbrella of Aesculapius:Lusty sparrows --Kive in clear light --Anna versus --Rock and root cunning --Calends --Mountain peaks, ravino, sleep --Solstice hymn, loom song --A Valentine --In Kel's book --Simple meeting --That I admire --If I offered you --The rabbit in the orchard through the gap --In an old new mode --Cocaine --The garden again --So little accuracy avails.

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