Robert Houston - March 13, 1973

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Robert Houston

Robert Houston reads from his novel A Drive with Ossie (1970) and a novel-in-progress about Irish immigrants set in South Carolina against the backdrop of slavery and the Civil War. Between these excerpts, he ironically reads poems by other writers alongside several satirical poems of his own.

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Introduction
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Speaker unknown.

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Excerpt from A Drive With Ossie
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Houston, Robert. A Drive with Ossie. Syracuse, NY: Salt Mound Press, 1970.

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"A Naming of Parts"
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Read by Robert Houston.

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Reed, Henry. A Map of Verona. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.

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"The Dance"
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Read by Robert Houston.

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Williams, William Carlos. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. New York: New Directions, 1962.

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"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota"
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Read by Robert Houston.

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Wright, James. The Branch Will Not Break. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1963.

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"Lying on an Air Mattress at Walter Keller's Garage Apartment in Athens, West Virginia"
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Uncollected.

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"We are on a train now..."
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Uncollected.

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"For Heddy"
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Read by Robert Houston.

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Baraka, Amiri. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note. New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1961.

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"Little Libby"
Description

Read by Robert Houston.

Citation

Moore, Julia A. "Little Libby." An Introduction to Poetry. ed. X.J. Kennedy. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966.

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Excerpt from a novel in progress
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Uncollected.

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Question and answer session on his novel in progress
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