[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).

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

1967

Sound recording

PCR138

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.

Hear@Buffalo: The Poetry Collection’s Audio Archive

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