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Philip Levine & Sam Hamill Reading

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Poets Sam Hamill and Philip Levine each read a selection of their works of poetry.

In: International Writing Program Archive | Poetry

Authors: Sam Hamill , Philip Levine

Date Recorded: April 02, 1984

Works Read: Related Works: Poems by Sam Hamill: "October Frost;" "Reading Seferis;" "Nostalgie;" "Cartographer's Wedding;" "The Movement: Homage to Trakl;" "Reading Seferis in Sonora;" "A Word for Spring;" "Kah Tai Purgatorial;" "Nihil Obstat;" and "Atlantic Triptych." Poems by Philip Levine: "Poem for Starlight;" "Silent in America;" "Belle Isle, 1949;" "The Late Answer;" "The House;" "Salts and Oils;" "You Can Have It;" "Wisteria;" "The White Iris;" "The Present;" and "Sweet Will."

Program: --

Format: reading

Topics: 20th century American poetry; George Seferis; Georg Trakl

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