Tom Weatherly (Nov. 3, 1942 - July 15 , 2014) on PennSound
PennSound has located a rare sound recording of Tom Weathelry, reading in Grand Valley Michigan in July of 1971.
(21;07): MP3
Weatherly reads the complete serial poem "MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS" for the first ten minutes of the reading (text here); after that he reads various poems, including “Lady Fox” from Thumprint but nothing else from that book or MAUMAU.
Tom Weatherly -- full texs of these powerful, brilliant, often volatile (and distressingly unacknowledged) books at Eclipse:
MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS (Corinth Books, 1970, via Eclipse)
Thumbprint (Telgraph Books, 1971, via Eclpise)
His Short History of the Saxophone, poetry collection from 2006, from SPD.
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note: Eclipse titles are indexed at the EPC Digital Library.
Further reading: see the very informative piece by Rosanne Wasserman.
Photos of Weatherly: YouTube montage
YouTube video of Nov. 3, 2104 memorial program at Strand bookstore
short video of Weatherly reading: