Item Information
Title: David Meltzer reading Kenneth Patchen poems with live and recorded music
Date: 1962 August 26
Physical Details: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in. ; 1 hr., 6 min., 7 sec.
Description: Reel contains poems read to music and lengthy segments of music only. Poems include "Letter to Ray Johnson" and "A Fifteen-Hundred Poem."
Original box is addressed to J.P. Pickens, a musician and collaborator of Meltzer whose psychedelic folk banjo may be recorded at the end of side 1 of this tape.
Creator: Meltzer, David, 1937-2016
Forms part of: Wallace Berman papers, 1907-1979, bulk 1955-1979
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: David Meltzer. David Meltzer reading Kenneth Patchen poems with live and recorded music, 1962 August 26. Wallace Berman papers, 1907-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Availability: This item has been digitally reformatted. It is available by requesting an appointment in the Archives of American Art's reading rooms, or in certain situations as a Reproduction Request.
Digital ID: 11448