[Poetry reading at University of New Mexico, Union Theatre, May 3, 1962] / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Recorded at the University of New Mexico, Union Theatre, May 3, 1962 on a 7 inch Sunset reel-to-reel tape by Allen De Loach, who gave the recording to the Poetry Collection.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads to an enthusiastic audience in New Mexico. He reads from Starting off from San Francisco, Americus and A Coney Island of the mind. Ferlinghetti closes the reading with a poem about D.H. Lawrence and Taos, N.M.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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

1962

Sound recording

INT185C

Starting off from San Francisco --Albertine, Albertine --A Coney Island of the mind (selection) --Sarolla's women in their picture hats --Penny candy store poem --Dog --first line of poem:[And that's the way it always is] --The world is a beautiful place to be born into --Big fat hairy vision of evil --Underwear --Flying out of it --Euphoria --Overpopulation --Berlin --Above Taos now.

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