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Article: PAUL KRESH, RECORD PRODUCER WHO PRESERVED POETS' VOICES.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 16, 1997
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Byline: Allan Kozinn The New York Times
Paul Kresh, an author, critic, record producer and broadcaster who specialized in spoken-word recordings, died on Sunday at New York Hospital. He was 77 and lived in Manhattan.
Steve Potofsky, a friend, said Mr. Kresh died of Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Kresh produced dozens of recordings of poets reading their own works for the Spoken Arts and Caedmon record labels in the 1960s and early '70s. He was the original editor of the expansive Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets Reading Their Poems, a series released on LP in 1969 and reissued on tape in the late 1980s. The treasury included readings ...