[Lecture, poetry and prose reading at Kent State University, April 14, 1973] / Arthur Okamura, Fielding Dawson, Michael McClure.

Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 15, 1973 by Robert J. Bertholf on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

This recording is of Arthur Okamura, Fielding Dawson, and Michael McClure delivering a lecture, a prose reading, and a poetry reading, respectively, at Kent State University on April 15, 1973. Okamura comments on slides of his paintings, Dawson reads short stories, and McClure reads poetry. Each speaker is introduced by inidentified people.

Arthur Okamura, Fielding Dawson, Michael McClure.

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

1973

Sound recording

CUR019

Disc 1.Lecture /Arthur Okamura. --Disc 2.The Olive Gown /Fielding Dawson --Pirate one /Dawson --The miracle /Dawson. --Disc 3.Mad sonnet /Michael McClure --first line of poem:[I love to think of the red purple rose ] /McClure --first line of poem:[Silence the eyes! Becalm the senses!] /McClure --Baja -- Outside Mexicali /McClure --Written after finding a dolphin's skull /McClure --American air /McClure --Written above the Sierras in the flyleaf of Regis Debray's Revolution in the Revolution /McClure --Finally /McClure --Not youth /McClure --Thrice blessed /McClure --The skull /McClure --Gray fox at solstice /McClure --From the window of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel /McClure --By the forest /McClure --October fifth /McClure --Xes /McClure.

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