[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo on March 16, 1969] / William Knott, Irving Layton.

Recorded at the Norton Conference Theatre at the University at Buffalo on March 16, 1969 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Poets William Knott and Irving Layton read poetry to the University at Buffalo audience. The recording has very poor sound quality. Introductions of poets by Max Wickert. Knott reads from Auto-necrophilia and Corpse and beans.

William Knott, Irving Layton.

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

1969

Sound recording

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William Knott reading:Some of my problems --Corpse and beans, of What is poetry? --Survival of the fittest groceries --All right, if I have to be famous --Eternity --Karezzas, contras, cockturnes, manshrieks, carrioncries --When our hands are alone --Three stanzas for Yvette Mimieux --Love, a poem --The beach holds and sifts us through her dreaming fingers --What language will be safe --Goodbye --Note --To American poets --Each evening the sea casts starfish up on the beach, scattering --Poem to poetry --I am one more, worshipping silk knees --My sperm is lyre in your blood --After the burial --Sergei Eisenen speaking Isadore Duncan --Monopoly. --Irving Layton reading:There were no signs --The swimmer --Mrs. Fornheim, refugee --Lady Enfield --On my way to school --Street funeral --To the girls of my graduation class --Seven o'clock lecture --The birth of tragedy --Motet --How poems get written --O.B.E. --T.S. Eliot --On First looking into Stalin's coffin --Misunderstanding --The improved binoculars --Orpheus --The bull calf --The way of the world --Earth goddess --From colony to nation --Nausica --Family portrait --Elegy for Marilyn Monroe --This machine age --The predator --For my friend who teaches literature --A strange turn --The worm --Bicycle pump --Rhine boat trip --For Musia's grandchildren --The graveyard --Elephant --Silent joy --Leaveta king.

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