[Poetry reading, Buffalo, N.Y., September 18, 1987] / Michael Boughn, Robert Creeley.

Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. by Paul Hogan on September 18, 1987 on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette. The venue is unknown.

Poetry reading by Michael Boughn and Robert Creeley. There is a recording of an unidentified man and woman also reading briefly on tracks 6, 13, 14.

Michael Boughn, Robert Creeley.

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

1987

Sound recording

HOG040

Michael Boughn reading:first line of poem:[The jazzman don't stop here anymore] --first line of poem:Mephitic power we turn to] --Knowledge is congruent with measure --first line of poem:[Nothing lost as it all does come back] --first line of poem:[Recovery of yellow split open] --first line of poem:[Putting on new clothes] --first line of poem:[Old rotting apple under our feet] --first line of poem:[To go there when brown turns green] --Never use what you know to explain what you don't know /John Clark, read by Michael Boughn --first line of poem:[Across the valley everytime] --first line of poem:[Roofs grey, peaked against grey] --Composition with rotten fruit and no trees --first line of poem:[Hello goodbye, a pain in the eye --New Year's Eve --Some poetics --Love song --Ballad of the fallen --River edge, for Jack Clark. --unidentified reader on last half of track 6. --Robert Creeley reading:Still dancers --Song --The terribly strange bed --Stairway to heaven --Interior --Common --Not much --Go float the boat --Fragment, for Ed Dorn --Epic --Forever, in memorian HR --Dreams --Eating out - -World --Tree for Warren Tallman --Broad Bay --Just in time, for Anne --National gallery Berlin --Life, for Basil --Love --That --Choo choo --Like mine --Waiting --The Willys --Picture --Leaving --Nature morte --Fleurs --Art, for Neil Williams --The company --The seasons, for Jasper Johns. --unidentified reader on last half of track 13 and track 14.

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