00:00-31:59 (pt 1) & 00:00-10:29 (pt 2)
This recording is a poetry reading from Lawrence P. Spingarn, reading from his 1st book, Rococo Summer and Other Poems, 1947. The poems represent a physical journey of progression, from the Atlantic, New England states to CA.
“Pilgrimage”
“Nytis Lodge: The Adirondacks [New Mexico Quarterly 16, 2 (1946)]
“Counterpart”
“Abandoned”
“Dead sea”
“Cold Comfort” [Poetry 68, 6 (1946)]
“Song of Myself”
“West” [Poetry 73,4 (1949)]
New Material→
“Mannequin” [New Mexico Quarterly 18,4 (1948)]
“The Counter Wait” (unknown)
“A Classic Journey” (published as “A Classic Voyage in 1961)
“The Beachcombers”
“Hobbema and the Casks”
“The Realists”
“The Slave Coast”
“The Lost River” (The Lost River Poems, 1951)
10:30 (pt. 2)-end:
Josephine Ain, poetry reading. Likely unpublished works.
“Poem of Continuation”
“Sleep Song”
“Leaves”
“Once there was a brook and willow”
“Enigmas”
“Aspects” (5 part poem)
“From a Balcony”
“Invocation”
“Window”
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