William Stafford: July 23, 1959

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The Poetry Center presents William Stafford reading from his poetry.

Originally Recorded By
The Poetry Center
Location
San Francisco
Date
07/23/1959
Total Run Time
00:44:49
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  • "Listening" (0:20)
  • "Elegy" (1:57)
  • Remarks on being published in The New Yorker magazine (5:50)
  • "When We Looked Back" (6:28)
  • "Homecoming" (7:59)
  • Remarks on "Homecoming" being published (10:00)
  • "Following" (10:45)
  • Remarks on "The Farm on the Great Plains" (11:55)
  • "The Farm on the Great Plains" (12:35)
  • Remarks on "A Survey" (14:08)
  • "A Survey" (15:54)
  • Remarks on traveling in New Mexico and the dreams he once had (19:43)
  • "In the Oregon Country" (20:16)
  • Remarks on publication (21:45)
  • Remarks on Richard Ashman (22:40)
  • "Thinking for Berky" (23:04)
  • Remarks on being in college in the 1930s (25:38)
  • "Watching the Jet Planes Dive" (26:12)
  • Remarks on language, tone, gesture, and word choice (28:12)
  • "The Research Team in the Mountains" (29:35)
  • "At the Custer Monument" (32:17)
  • Remarks on "At the Custer Monument" (33:20)
  • "Strokes" (35:19)
  • Remarks on the style of San Francisco writers, and the city itself (36:08)
  • "Action" (36:37)
  • Remarks on Liberation magazine and his radical friends (37:49)
  • "On Being Invited to a Testimonial Dinner" (38:33)
  • Remarks on "Memorials of a Tour around Mount Hood" (40:03)
  • "At a Pioneer Cemetery" (42:41)
  • "From the Cage" (43:40)

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