Al Young - September 14, 1983

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UA Poetry Center

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Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Al Young

Al Young reads poems from The Blues Don't Change (1982) and Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990 (1992), along with several prose selections.

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Track Title
Welcome and Introduction
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Description

By Lois Shelton; recording begins mid-sentence.

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Opening Remarks and "Houston in October"
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Citation

Young, Al. Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1992.

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"Your Basic Black Poet"
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Differs from published version.

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Young, Al. Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1992.

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"Saudades: The Portuguese Blues"
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Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Young, Al. Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1992.

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"Dancing in the Laundromat"
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Citation

Young, Al. The Blues Don't Change. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

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"The Problem of Identity"
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Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Young, Al. The Blues Don't Change. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

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"For Arl in Her Sixth Month"
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Citation

Young, Al. The Blues Don't Change. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

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"Boogie With O.O. Gabugah" and "The Old O.O. Blues"
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Differs from published version.

Citation

Young, Al. The Blues Don't Change. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

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"How the Rainbow Works"
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Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Young, Al. The Blues Don't Change. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

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"The James Cotton Band at Keystone"
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Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Young, Al. The Blues Don't Change. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

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"Cocktails for Two: Spike Jones and his City Slickers, 1946"
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Description

Recording cuts out from 5:33 to 5:36.

Citation

Young, Al. Bodies & Soul: Musical Memoirs. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1981.

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"Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins, 1939"
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Citation

Young, Al. Bodies & Soul: Musical Memoirs. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1981.

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Track Title
Chapter 16 from Sitting Pretty
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Description

Recording cuts out from 8:24 to 8:26.

Citation

Young, Al. Sitting Pretty. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976.

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Al Young
Photographer
Lois Shelton
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