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.
Houston, Robert. A Drive with Ossie. Syracuse, NY: Salt Mound Press, 1970.
Read by Robert Houston.
Reed, Henry. A Map of Verona. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
Read by Robert Houston.
Williams, William Carlos. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. New York: New Directions, 1962.
Read by Robert Houston.
Wright, James. The Branch Will Not Break. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1963.
Uncollected.
Read by Robert Houston.
Baraka, Amiri. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note. New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1961.
Read by Robert Houston.
Moore, Julia A. "Little Libby." An Introduction to Poetry. ed. X.J. Kennedy. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966.