Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley as Transcribed by Zoe Brown

Transcription of Charles Olson reading at the Berkeley Poetry Conference on the night of July 23, 1965 in Wheeler Hall at the University of California. He read The Ring of, from In Cold Hell In Thicket (Origin 8); An Ode on the Nativity, from In Cold Hell In Thicket; (Part of) Letter 5, from The Maximus Poems; (Part of) Letter 2, from The Maximus Poems; (Part of) Letter 9, from The Maximus Poems; Letter 10 from The Maximus Poems; On First Looking out through Juan de la Cosa's Eyes, from The Maximus Poems. Additional transcribed commentary from conference attendees Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Lew Welch, Robert Duncan. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of wrappers and along staple-binding, some light pencil and ink markings on front free end paper. Softcover quarto, staple-bound in B & W glossy pictorial wrappers, 59 pp.