[Poetry reading for Bangladesh at St. George's Church in New York, N.Y., 1971] /

Recorded at St. George's Church in New York, N.Y. in 1971 by Allen De Loach on three 60 minute Pacific Stereo sound cassettes. The Poetry Collection acquired the recordings from De Loach.

This recording is of a poetry reading held at St. George's Church in New York City in 1971 as a benefit for Bangladesh. Featured poets include: Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz, Gregory Corso, Andrei Voznesensky, Peter Orlovsky, Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders, David Shapiro, Anne Waldman, and Kenneth Koch. Highlights of the performances include: Voznesesnky read in Russian and Ginsberg translated, Ginsberg chanted "September on Jessore Road" and "La Ilaha Allahu" while playing harmonium, David Shapiro performed a song by Joseph Joachim on violin, and Kenneth Koch read poems by children in Swaziland.

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1971

Sound recording

INT144

Disc 1.first line of poem:[The evil eye] /Larry Fagin --first line of poem:[When my head] /Fagin --first line of poem:[Gravity] /Fagin --Self /Fagin --Poems (1970) /Fagin --Intercity animal /Michael Horovitz --Ballad (unidentified) /Horovitz --first line of poem:[Leaves leave unlike life] /Horovitz --Heroic human love outwitting death -- /Horovitz --Remembering /Horovitz --Elemental love call /Horovitz --September on Jessore Road /Allen Ginsberg. --Disc 2.My grandmother was a cavewoman /Gregory Corso --Goya /Andrei Voznesensky --The shadow of sound /Voznesensky --Halloween apples /Voznesensky --Lepers cry /Peter Orlovsky --[untitled poem[ /Ron Padgett --[untitled poem] /Ed Sanders --first line of poem:[Two factions were fighting for the same time] /Sanders --The entrapment of John Sinclair /Sanders --A song for Allen /David Shapiro --The funeral of Jan Palach /Shapiro --Memorial Day /Anne Waldman. --Disc 3.Lament for two unborn poems /Voznesensky --A minute of time /Voznesensky --La Ilaha Allahu /Ginsberg (harmonium) --poems by children in Swaziland, read by Kenneth Koch:The lion --The hawk --The elephant --The snake --The goat --Alive for an instant /Koch.

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