[Poetry reading at Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y., September 28, 1979] / [Peter Levitt. Reading of Mayan letters / Charles Olson.]

Recorded at the Allentown Community Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on September 28, 1979 by Allen De Loach on a 90 minute Memorex sound cassette. The recording was acquired by the Poetry Collection from De Loach.

Recording of a perfomance by Peter Levitt reading his own poetry, his translations from Chinese poets, and singing poems originally written by Louis Zukofsky. Disc 2 features a poetry reading by Charles Olson, performing selections from Mayan letters and his other works. There is no recording information regarding the logistics of the Olson recording.

[Peter Levitt. Reading of Mayan letters / Charles Olson.]

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

1973

Sound recording

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Disc 1.Peter Levitt singing poems written by Louis Zukofsky with music melody composed by Levitt and his wife:Song for the year's end --Xenophanes --To my valentines --Old --Number 36 --Light. --Peter Levitt reading Levitt's own poetry:How the forest grows for Douglas Carroll wife --The butterfly --There must've been a million --Landscapes for the Han-shan --Serenade --Short poem in shadow --Nighthawk --Something different --Rain --Books by dead man make me hungry. --Levitt reading poetry he has translated by Li Qing Zhao:To the tune of Ru Meng Ling --To the tune of Pu Sa Man --The cry of wild geese returning --The the tune of Xiao Chun Chen --Gazing at the clear eveneing after snow /written by Chin Tao. --Levitt reading his own poetry:The boat --Oh moon --Naked ending with a verb --An ether --Green sonnet --Diaspora --Song for a Jewish poet --That of this: a devotional --The seed --Untitled --Reversal is the movement of the Tao --Day like water --Practice --Wu tung --Autumn forms autumn's forms. --Disc 2.Charles Olson on Mayan letters and other poems:Sunday, April 1, letter 13 from Mayan letters --Ierma, March 8, letter 5 from Mayan letters --Maximus letter number whatever --Cashes --Bohlin 1 --Bohlin II --John Watts took --In this place is a poem which I have not been able to write --The Gulf of Maine.

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