Laying down the tower / Marge Piercy.

PRA Archive #:

BC0665

Poet, novelist and activist Marge Piercy (1936 – ) reads her eleven-poem sequence Laying Down the Tower, a radical meditation on the ancient symbols of the tarot deck – a political reading for the overturning of a repressed society. No intro or outro, and sound mostly audible in left channel only.

Date Recorded On:

Wellfleet, Mass., Nov. 1971.

Date Broadcast On:

KPFA, 20 Jan. 1972; KPFT, 29 May 1972.

Item Duration:

1 reel (34 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.

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View Folio: KPFA Folio, January 1972, p. 35
Program: Laying down the tower / Marge Piercy.
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Speaker: Marge Piercy
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Rights Summary:

RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org

Availability Notice:

This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica’s American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.

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  • pbcoreIdentifier
    • PRA Archive #: BC0665
  • pbcoreTitle
    • Program: Laying down the tower / Marge Piercy.
  • pbcoreRightsSummary
    • rightsSummary

      RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org

  • pbcorePublisher
    • Distributor: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
  • pbcoreContributor
    • Speaker: Marge Piercy