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Audio Recording The cultures of American poetry. Part 2 lecture

The cultures of American poetry. Part 2 : lecture

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Title

  • The cultures of American poetry. Part 2 lecture

Summary

  • Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Robert Hass delivers a lecture to open the 1996-97 literary season. Before his talk, Mr. Hass reads the following poems by newly named Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska: In praise of self-deprecation, Returns, and Portrait of a woman. In the course of his talk, Mr. Hass reads: a song composed by Tatanka Iyontake (Sitting Bull); Song of the butterfly: a Chippewa song, Frances Densmore, translator; Magpie song: a Navajo song, Washington Matthews, translator; Prayer for rain: a Sia song, Mathilde Cox Stevenson, translator; On being brought from Africa to America, by Phllis Wheatley; spirituals and worksongs; Compensation, by Paul Lawrence Dunbar; In the morning (excerpt), by Paul Lawrence Dunbar; The song of the smoke (excerpt), by W.E.B. DuBois; and The scarlet woman, by Fenton Johnson.

Names

  • Hass, Robert
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1996.

Headings

  • -  American poetry--History and criticism

Notes

  • -  Recorded Oct. 3, 1996, in the Montpelier Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RWD 8315

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96706036

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Hass, Robert, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. The cultures of American poetry. Part 2 lecture. 1996. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/96706036/.

APA citation style:

Hass, R., Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund & Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1996) The cultures of American poetry. Part 2 lecture. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96706036/.

MLA citation style:

Hass, Robert, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. The cultures of American poetry. Part 2 lecture. 1996. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/96706036/>.