[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 15, 1967] / James Wright.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 15, 1967 by Allen De Loach on 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Recording was acquired from De Loach by the Poetry Collection.

This recording is of a poetry reading by James Wright in support of his soon-to-be published book, Shall we gather at the river. It is suspected that this reading took place during the afternoon in a University at Buffalo classroom, prior to his University reading that evening.

James Wright.

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

1967

Sound recording

INT131C

There was a lady who loved a swine --A note left in Jimmy Leonard's shack --At Thomas Hardy's birthplace, 1953 --Autumn begins in Martin's Field, Ohio --Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Fire Island, Minnesota --Stages on a journey westward --Two poems about President Harding: 1. His death. 2. His tomb in Ohio --A blessing --The Minneapolis poem --Speak --I-N spells in.

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