Ann Lauterbach

photo: © 2006 Charles Bernstein/Pennsound

Close Listening
Readings and conversations at WPS1.Org
Clocktower Studio, New York, December 4, 2006

Program One: Poetry Reading

Full program (27:45)

Singles:

from If In Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 ( New York: (Penguin, 2001):
1. Typography (2:47)
2. Diorama of the Uninhabited Yes (2:23)
3. On (Thing) (1:02)
4. Poise on Arrow (2:06)
5. Eclipse with Object (1:19)
6. Missing Ages (4:08)
7. Arm's Way, Harm's Reach (2:55)
8. The French Girl (2:29)
9. True and False Green (0:44
10. Quotations from Reality (1:02)

from Hum (New York: Penguin, 2005):
11. Instruction (1:02)
12. Seen, Overheard (1:27)
13. Opera (1:03)
14. Postscript (1:41)

Program Two
Lauterbach in conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:27)
Lauterbach talks about sound, performance, and folk music and goes on to engage the difficult relation of gender and authority.  She also discusses "Missing Ages," a poem she read on program one, and also her essay collection, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (New York: Viking, 2005).

Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
WPS1 Studio Engineer: Lucy Sinanjuntak
© 2006 Ann Lauterbach and Charles Bernstein



from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008
"George Oppen: How Shall I Speak?"; Lauterbach's poem, "Oppen's Way" (8:40): MP3


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 4, 2006
1. Introduction (2:22): MP3
2. Harmony (0:47): MP3
3. Victory (2:42): MP3
4. Precision Tuning (1:15): MP3
5. XYZ Plus Minus (2:46): MP3
6. Acrostic (Barbara Guest) (0:40): MP3
7. "Back" (2:25): MP3
8. The Book and Dream Club (1:17): MP3
9. Fragment (4:24): MP3
10. Fragment (12:34): MP3

complete reading (36:39): MP3


from the Live at the Ear CD
"Opening Day" from Clamor, recorded January 4, 1992 (4:38): MP3


Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, New York December 4, 1999
Complete Reading (30:30): MP3

Also on PennSound:
Lauterbach reads John Ashbery's "Litany" with the author
Lauterbach's Essay, "What We Know as We Know It: Reading 'Litany' with J.A.", which discusses the poem and the process of recording and performing it alongside Ashbery

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
and educational use only. © 2008 Ann Lauterbach. Used with permission. Distributed by PennSound.