William Bronk
A Selection

1. The Inclination of the Earth (0:37)
2. Home Address (1:40)
3. My Father Photographed with Friends (1:28)
4. The Changes (1:34)
5. At Tikal (2:04)
6. The Annihilation of Matter (1:23)
7. The Beautiful Wall, Machu Picchu (1:37)
8. The Nature of Musical Form (1:19)
9. The World in Time and Space (1:18)
10. The Outcry (0:49)
11. The Smile on the Face of a Kouros (3:12)
12. Colloquy on a Bed (1:31)
13. On Credo Ut Intelligam (4:56)
14. On Divers Geometries (1:17)
15. Uncle Will (1:55)
16. The Real Surrounding: On Canaletto's Venice (2:57)
17. That Something There Is Should Be (0:56)
18. Something Like Tepees (1:19)
19. The Abnegation (1:06)
20. Yes: I Mean So OK -- Love (0:29)
21. The Ignorant Lust After Knowledge (1:18)
22. Dos-A-Dos (1:13)
23. The Fiction of Shape (1:36)
24. The Importuning of Truth (1:41)
25. To Praise the Music (1:28)
26. Where It Ends (0:55)
27. The Poems: All Concessions Made (1:29)
28. Names Like Barney Cain's (0:24)
29. The Rapport (0:29)
30. To Be a Saint Like Christopher (0:26)
31. The Passage (0:35)
32. On Being Together (0:28)
33. The World (0:41)
34. The Deprived (0:22)
35. The Inability (0:23)
36. The Lack of Information (0:19)

Recording History: All selections were recorded by Verna Gillis in Hudson Falls, New York on October 13, 1978.
Credits: These poems have previously appeared in My Father Photographed with Friends (1976); Light and Dark (1956); The World, the Worldless (1964); The Empty Hands (1969); That Tantalus (1971); To Praise the Music (1972); Silence and Metaphor (1975); The Meantime (1976); Finding Losses (1976).
Staff for this recording:
Producer: Poetry in Pubic Places
Recording Engineer: Verna Gillis
Exec. Producer: Alan Austin

Reading, 1979 (location and exact date unknown)
complete recording (53:59): MP3

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