Helen Adam: May 5, 1964

The Poetry Center presents Helen Adam reading from her poetry, and songs from her ballad opera San Francisco's Burning.

Originally Recorded By
APA
Location
Gallery Lounge, SFSC
Date
05/05/1964
Total Run Time
1:06:58
Contributor
James Schevill
Rights
©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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  • Introduction of Helen Adam by James Schevill, remarks about magic as it relates to the work of Helen Adam (00:18)
  • Helen Adam comments on her poem "Farewell, Stranger" (01:46)
  • "Farewell, Stranger" (02:07)
  • "Kiltory" (04:02)
  • "The Stepmother" (08:51)
  • "I Love My Love" (13:38)
  • "At The Window" (21:41)
  • "Counting Out Rhyme" (23:07)
  • Remarks about "The Hawthorn Flower" (28:54)
  • "The Hawthorn Flower" (29:09)
  • "The Fair Young Wife" (32:25)
  • "Anaid Si Taerg" [ "Great is Diana" ] (39:07)
  • "Miss Laura" (43:27)
  • "Apartment on Twin Peaks" (47:45)
  • "The Hanged Man" from San Francisco is Burning (54:45)
  • "The Well-Kept Man" from San Francisco is Burning (57:08)
  • "A Sea Shanty" from San Francisco is Burning (59:23)
  • "Night Nursery-Rhyme" (1:03:20)

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