[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 16, 1973] / Michael McClure.

Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 16, 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

Recording of a poetry reading by Michael McClure. McClure is introduced by an unnamed man. Reading was part of the Kent State Creative Arts Festival.

Michael McClure.

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

1973

Sound recording

CUR058

Love poem --Night poem --Lion poem --first line of piece:[Americans pass by] --[Dolphin skull] --American air --first line of poem:[Should'st thou die] --Finally --first line of poem:It is not youth that intrigues me, but suppleness] --Hermes triste --Memorial poems for Charles Olson and Jack Kerouac --Waves crash and pluck jewel sand --From the window of the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel --Your eyes tell me --Beautiful flesh colored dahlias --Yeah, Christ let me be cousin --A redefinition --Being bags of dumb dark meat --The seriousness of animals --Sure yes --The young lady cat --first line of play:[This is our feast].

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