[San Francisco Mime Troupe benefit reading, April 1, 1967] /

Recorded at the University at Buffalo on April 1, 1967 from two 90 minute Scotch sound cassettes.

Recording of a poetry program featuring University at Buffalo professors (Robert Creeley, Mac Hammond, Leslie Fiedler, John Wieners) and graduate students (Allen De Loach).

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Mac Hammond reading:Sermon on chastity --Frank O'Hara's apartment --John Keats' father's death --On the death of Daranda van Tassell --War verse --On being straight faced --A log upon the complete book --The bitter end --The scientist's daughter --The space pirate --The space ranger. --Disc 2.An attempt at an apocalypse. --John Wieners reading:By the banks of the Naponset River. --Robert Creeley reading Olson variations --excerpt from Olson's Mayan letters --The dream --The hole. --Allen De Loach reading:Notes to my lover --Untitled poem in four parts --With this ring --I need to say --Time cadence --For Peter --Elegy for Walt Whitman --The A train --Why days --Pieces for unaccompanied voice --Waterboy song --If I should speak of love --Words for Japanese landscape.

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