[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, April 17, 1986] / Leslie Fiedler, Mary Cappello.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on April 17, 1986 on two 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.

Poet and University at Buffalo professor Leslie Fiedler and poet Mary Cappello read their poetry. The poetry reading was sponsored by the English Department, the American Studies graduate students and the Cultural and Performing Arts of the University at Buffalo. They are introduced by a woman named Ann.

Leslie Fiedler, Mary Cappello.

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

1986

Sound recording

PCR112

Disc 1.Mary Cappello reading:Born in the year of the comet --The lover's question --To my grandmother --Toward blessedness: where I wanted to go. --Disc 2.Leslie Fiedler reading:O ai! --Child's play --Call it sleep --The wolf's propellers --These catheters --The heart's more diffident monsters --Onan --Notes on the 17th century --On Troy, the slave --A prayer against wet dreams --A prayer against the crud --My silver nutmeg --Marguerite --In vain from love's preakness I fly --Schlepfer's cocks --Dumb dick --To my grandmother on Christmas Eve --Spring song of the Progrumchik --The Jew to the Progrumchik --The schoolhouse story --A bloody husband --Portrait of the artist as a young minotaur --The whiteness of the whale: Bologna, 1952. --Disc 3.To Chookie, my 17 year-old dog who slipped and fell through the ice of my swimming poll on the twenty-fifth of January, 1973 --Part five: The defeat.

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