[Poetry reading at Kent State University, April 10, 1973] / Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg.

Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 10, 1973 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Recorded by Robert J. Bertholf, while serving as Professor of English and organizer of the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University. Recording was donated to the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, where Bertholf subsequently served as Curator.

Disc 1 features poet Ed Dorn reading at Kent State University. He is introduced by Robert J. Bertholf. Disc 2 contains a barely audible, very poorly recorded poetry and mantra reading by Allen Ginsberg.

Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg.

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

1973

Sound recording

CUR066

Disc 1.Ed Dorn reading:Juh & Geronimo --Nana & Victorio --The moving, invisible spectre of the phratry on the traitor peaches --Easy's best --Interview --One poetry cannot be more true than another --A paradox is something that is unbelievable --This democracy leads naturally to a large landless peasantry --Real alligators float through the chilling nightmare of absolute symbolism --Unpack your dreams and stay awhile --Another top secret calamity is about to commence --The United States is the first country in the history of the world to take a regular vote on it schizophrenia --Don't you have the feeling that he'd do it, that he's the one who would do it? --A message from the incarcerated --The vegetable cannot speak when its water has been removed --Very early Freud is modern --The burden of proof is heavy --Negativity has positively bad results --Those are from a thing called O'Brian --Return to nature --The man's politics are more or less beside the point --Executioner, stay thy cold blade --You can't fall out of an at-ease position --Now we are told it is permissible --Paranoia incorporated: a conversation --The history of futures --A quick glance at the immediate present --Book III of Gunslinger --The Lawg --The winterbook. --Disc 2.Allen Ginsberg reading:[mantra and chanting] --first line of poem:[Chicago, ransom our skies with big business] --[chanting]

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