Reading: Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, Part 1
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
20-3-1974 8:00 PM
End Date
20-3-1974 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 20th, 1974, as part of the 5th Annual UND Writers Conference: “City Lights in North Dakota,” Gary Snyder and Michael McClure read from each of their works. Snyder begins the reading with a series of poems from his upcoming book, titled Turtle Island, which includes his chapbook Manzanita and a cycle of poems called Magpie’s Song. McClure then reads from some of the last poems he had written in San Francisco before travelling to North Dakota, a poem for Snyder about wild pansies, a poem called “Ode for Bob Dylan,” and many others. Snyder and McClure then take turns sharing from their work. Snyder discusses the importance of having knowledge about plants and sings a ballad called “The Wild Mushroom,” McClure reads a sestina about a headache, Snyder reads a formal poem he wrote for his sons called “The Uses of Light,” McClure reads a poem that describes what he once learned from a biologist while overlooking the beach where Sir Francis Drake landed on the west coast, McClure reads a poem about a gray fox called “One Should Not Talk to a Skilled Hunter about That Which Is Forbidden by the Buddha,” and McClure reads a poem called “Baja Outside Mexicali.”
Streaming Media
Reading: Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, Part 1
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 20th, 1974, as part of the 5th Annual UND Writers Conference: “City Lights in North Dakota,” Gary Snyder and Michael McClure read from each of their works. Snyder begins the reading with a series of poems from his upcoming book, titled Turtle Island, which includes his chapbook Manzanita and a cycle of poems called Magpie’s Song. McClure then reads from some of the last poems he had written in San Francisco before travelling to North Dakota, a poem for Snyder about wild pansies, a poem called “Ode for Bob Dylan,” and many others. Snyder and McClure then take turns sharing from their work. Snyder discusses the importance of having knowledge about plants and sings a ballad called “The Wild Mushroom,” McClure reads a sestina about a headache, Snyder reads a formal poem he wrote for his sons called “The Uses of Light,” McClure reads a poem that describes what he once learned from a biologist while overlooking the beach where Sir Francis Drake landed on the west coast, McClure reads a poem about a gray fox called “One Should Not Talk to a Skilled Hunter about That Which Is Forbidden by the Buddha,” and McClure reads a poem called “Baja Outside Mexicali.”
A transcription of this reading is available here.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1974/day3/2
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