[Poetry reading at the Tralfamadore Cafe in Buffalo, N.Y., October 1, 1979] / Robert Creeley, Peter Levitt.

Recorded at the Tralfamadore Cafe in Buffalo, New York on October 1, 1979 by Allen De Loach on a 90 minute Certron sound cassette. Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.

Allen De Loach introduces the poets for the first fall 1979 reading in the "Outriders Series." Peter Levitt opens by singing the first part of "A song for the year's end" a poem by Louis Zukofsky for his wife. Levitt then reads his own poems, some of which are uncollected, some of which are from the book Running grass: poems 1970-1977, for which Creeley wrote the foreward. In the second half, Creeley reads "A death" from his book of short stories, The gold diggers. He also reads the sixteenth chapter of his novel, The island.

Robert Creeley, Peter Levitt.

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1979

Sound recording

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Disc 1.Peter Levitt reading:A song for the year's end (by Louis Zukofsky) --The boat --first line of poem:[Nameless, nameless] --The orientalist's lover --The wild --Hands --Love is a star --At sea --There must've been a million --Pearl --Green sonnet --Song: for a Jewish poet --Bay --Practice (uncollected) --first line of poem:[Your breath depends on music] --Heron --first line of poem:[To draw a line simply] (uncollected) --Vision (Part I of A book of light) --Articulation (Part II of A book of light) --first line of poem:[My hand dissolves into stone]. --Disc 2.Robert Creeley prose reading:A death --The island (chapter 16).

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