[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, June 17, 1973] / Carl Rakosi.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on June 17, 1973 by Allen De Loach on a 60 minute Ampex sound cassette.

After an introduction by Max Wickert, American poetry Carl Rakosi gives a spirited poetry reading to an enthusiastic university audience.

Carl Rakosi.

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

1973

Sound recording

INT085

To my second best pen --The great American headstone --Americana 23 --What did you say a propos was? --Americana 22: the country singer --Old hickory --The experiment --Item --Americana 20: the sense of history --Original sin --How to be discovered as a great bard --Americana 27 --Americana 31 --The poet --Nine nature of metaphor --Fragment --Once he sets about it, every man has a theory --The China policy --The fortifications --Associations with the view from the house --Aie --How to be with a rock --Riddle --Ground breaking --first line of poem:[Heavy hands, the age of occupation] --The history of man --In a warm bath --Lean --At the graveside --Time --Instructions to the player --The vow.

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