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Audio Recording Daud Kamal reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, Aug. 26, 1975

Daud Kamal reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, Aug. 26, 1975

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Title

  • Daud Kamal reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, Aug. 26, 1975

Summary

  • Mr. Kamal reads twenty-one poems from his collection, Compass of love and other poems. He concludes with his uncollected poem, An ode to death.

Names

  • Kamal, Daud, 1935-1987
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1975.

Contents

  • Compass of love -- I stride ahead of myself -- Man alone is haunted -- A pebble -- The hieroglyphics of desire -- Our blatant calendars (after Ghalib) -- The past -- Goodbye, my love -- I have been talking and talking -- Hawk -- Crow -- Homage to Ezra Pound -- The circus will go on for ever -- The paper flowers of catastrophe -- Facts not sighs -- On the American bombing of a hospital in Hanoi -- The Paleolithic Age -- A mental patient -- A rotting pomegranate on the road -- Epigrammatic verse: Faces ; Mirrors ; Desolution ; Autumn (after Ghalib) -- An ode to death.

Notes

  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
  • -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 126.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LWO 8657

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 94838839

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Kamal, Daud, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Daud Kamal reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory. 1975. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/94838839/.

APA citation style:

Kamal, D. & Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1975) Daud Kamal reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/94838839/.

MLA citation style:

Kamal, Daud, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Daud Kamal reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory. 1975. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/94838839/>.