George Hitchcock - December 10, 1969

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
George Hitchcock

George Hitchcock reads from his first four books: Poems & Prints (1962), Tactics of Survival (1964), The Dolphin with the Revolver in Its Teeth (1967), and A Ship of Bells (1968). He also reads work that will later be collected in The Rococo Eye (1970) and Lessons in Alchemy (1976). He opens the reading with a selection of found poems from the volume Pioneers of Modern Poetry (1967), which he crafted with Robert L. Peters.

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by John Weston

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"The Silo"
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Pioneers of Modern Poetry. Edited by Robert L. Peters and George Hitchcock. Kayak, 1967.

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"Distinguishing Ru from Chu"
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Pioneers of Modern Poetry. Edited by Robert L. Peters and George Hitchcock. Kayak, 1967.

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"The Treatment of Bee Diseases"
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Pioneers of Modern Poetry. Edited by Robert L. Peters and George Hitchcock. Kayak, 1967.

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"The Call of the Eastern Quail"
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Pioneers of Modern Poetry. Edited by Robert L. Peters and George Hitchcock. Kayak, 1967.

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"What to Say to the Pasha"
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Pioneers of Modern Poetry. Edited by Robert L. Peters and George Hitchcock. Kayak, 1967.

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"Explorations"
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Hitchcock, George. Poems & Prints. San Francisco Review, 1962

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"Figures in a Ruined Ballroom"
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Hitchcock, George. Poems & Prints. San Francisco Review, 1962

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"Tao"
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Hitchcock, George. Tactics of Survival. Bindweed Press, 1964.

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"Night Along the Trail"
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Hitchcock, George. Tactics of Survival. Bindweed Press, 1964.

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"The Noose of Apathy"
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Hitchcock, George. Tactics of Survival. Bindweed Press, 1964.

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"May All Earth Be Clothed in Light"
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Hitchcock, George. Tactics of Survival. Bindweed Press, 1964.

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"Scattering Flowers"
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Hitchcock, George. The Dolphin with a Revolver in its Teeth. Unicorn Press, 1967.

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"The Republic of Mexico"
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Hitchcock, George. The Dolphin with a Revolver in its Teeth. Unicorn Press, 1967.

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"Serenade"
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Hitchcock, George. The Dolphin with a Revolver in its Teeth. Unicorn Press, 1967.

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"Home Town"
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Hitchcock, George. A Ship of Bells. Kayak, 1968.

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"The Comorant"
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Hitchcock, George. A Ship of Bells. Kayak, 1968.

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"Consider the Poet"
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Hitchcock, George. A Ship of Bells. Kayak, 1968.

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"Voyaging to the Antipodes"
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Hitchcock, George. A Ship of Bells. Kayak, 1968.

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"Lying Now in the New Grass"
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Hitchcock, George. The Dolphin with a Revolver in its Teeth. Unicorn Press, 1967.

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"Now I See the Sun Again"
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Hitchcock, George. Lessons in Alchemy. West Coast Poetry Review, 1976.

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"Life Show"
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Uncollected.

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"A Ghost"
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Hitchcock, George. The Rococo Eye. Northeast-Juniper Books, 1970.

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"The Album"
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Hitchcock, George. Lessons in Alchemy. West Coast Poetry Review, 1976.

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"Song of Expectancy"
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Hitchcock, George. Lessons in Alchemy. West Coast Poetry Review, 1976.

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Question and Answer Session
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"The One Whose Reproach I Cannot Evade" (Question and Answer Session continued)
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Hitchcock, George. The Dolphin with a Revolver in its Teeth. Unicorn Press, 1967.

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Question and Answer Session (continued)
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George Hitchcock
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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The University of Arizona Poetry Center
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