Event Title
Reading: John Ashbery
Location
UND Memorial Ballroom
Start Date
23-3-1978 8:00 PM
End Date
23-3-1978 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from March 23, 1978 as part of the 9th annual UND Writing Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” John Ashbery reads a selection of poems. Ashbery reads “The Task,” “Soonest Mended,” “It Was Raining in the Capitol,” “Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox,” “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape,” “Parergon,” an excerpt from “The System,” “Worsening Situation,” “Scheherazade,” “Mixed Feelings,” “Street Musicians,” “Wooden Buildings,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis is Her Name,” “What is Poetry?,” and “Pyrography.”
Introduced by Sandra Donaldson.
Reading: John Ashbery
UND Memorial Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from March 23, 1978 as part of the 9th annual UND Writing Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” John Ashbery reads a selection of poems. Ashbery reads “The Task,” “Soonest Mended,” “It Was Raining in the Capitol,” “Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox,” “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape,” “Parergon,” an excerpt from “The System,” “Worsening Situation,” “Scheherazade,” “Mixed Feelings,” “Street Musicians,” “Wooden Buildings,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis is Her Name,” “What is Poetry?,” and “Pyrography.”
Introduced by Sandra Donaldson.
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.