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Audio Recording Jonathan Williams reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, June 18, 1965

Jonathan Williams reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, June 18, 1965

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Title

  • Jonathan Williams reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, June 18, 1965

Names

  • Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1965.

Contents

  • From The empire finals at Verona: Credo ; Autopsy ; O for a muse of fire ; The coolest ; A vulnerary ; The grounds ; The sounds ; The fall classic -- From Amen huzza selah: Syllables in the form of leaves ; Four drinking songs: I. Trunkene im Früchling ; II. Again the night ; III. The desperado ; Finger exercises ; Hojoki -- From Elegies and celebrations: The big house ; The distance to the friend ; Good gray gay blade (an homage to Whitman) ; Those troublesome disguises ; Carl Ruggles' visionary spectre in Vermont ; Let the song lie in the thing ; A week from the big pigeon to the little Tennessee (Davenport Gap, Cosby Knob, Tri-Corner Knob) ; False gap --
  • From Lullabies twisters gibbers drags: Lullaby for George Wallace, up to the ass of a very tall Indian on the banks of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County ; Heart-song dear to the American people ; White Anglo-Saxon protestant invocation; or, Don't let a wet W.A.S.P. get his shit hot ; An Air-Express-collect, fifty-pound watermelon for Senator James O. Eastland ; Dealer's choice and the dealer shuffles (for William Burroughs) -- From In England's green &: Reflections from Appalachia in honor of Delius' centenary, 1962 ; Two pastorals for Samuel Palmer at Shoreham ; The electronic lyre, string with poets' sinews (for Elizabeth Sewell) ; Cobwebbery ; A mathom for J.R. R. Tolkien ; The flower-hunter in the fields (for Agnes Arber) ; The familiars (for Geoffrey Grigson) --
  • From Fifty responses to the symphonies of Gustave Mahler: First movement of First symphony: Slowly, dragging, like a sound in nature ; Second movement of Third symphony: What the flowers in the meadow tell me ; First movement of Fourth symphony: Serene wary, not hurried ; Second movement of Fourth symphony: In a comfortable motion -- Granny Donaldson scoffs at skeptics and the uninitiated as she works up a cow blanket (of homespun, crocheting & appliqué) up a branch near Brasstown -- Lee Ogle ties a broom & ponders cures for arthritis -- Old man Sam Ward's short history of the gee-haw whimmy-diddle -- Bea Hensley hammers an iron Chinquapin leaf on his anvil near spruce pine & cogitates on the nature of beauty spots.

Notes

  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
  • -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 269.
  • -  Cataloging based on container/printed material/LC paperwork.

Medium

  • 1 sound tape reel (60 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LWO 4630

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 94838428

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Williams, Jonathan, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Jonathan Williams reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory. 1965. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/94838428/.

APA citation style:

Williams, J. & Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1965) Jonathan Williams reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/94838428/.

MLA citation style:

Williams, Jonathan, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Jonathan Williams reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory. 1965. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/94838428/>.