Peter Cole

Peter Cole, 2006. Photo: Lynn Saville.

Studio 111 Recording Session, UPenn, January 23, 2012

From Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions, 2008)

1. Improvisation on Lines by Isaac the Blind (1:43): MP3
2. (Valent)Lines for A (1:19): MP3
3. from “Things on Which I’ve Stumbled” (9:01): MP3
4. And So the Skin (0:50): MP3
5. from “Notes on Bewilderment" (4:43): MP3
6. Coexistence: A Lost and Almost Found Poem (1:52): MP3
7. Israel Is (0:17): MP3
8. Palestine: A Sestina (3:15): MP3
9. from What Has Been Prepared:
   Sounds of Rain (1:04): MP3
   What Does Always Mean (1:25): MP3
   Always An Eye (1:01): MP3
   What Is It that Gives Rise (2:03): MP3
   Radiant Morning (1:04): MP3
10. The Ghazal of What Hurt (1:43): MP3

New Poems

11. More for Santob (3:08): MP3

From Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press, 1998 / What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 (Shearsman Books, 2005)

12. News that Stays (1:57): MP3
13. Two Poems on Translation (0:45): MP3
14. Qualms: Some Proverbs (2:42): MP3
15. From Speech's Hedge:
    Speech's Hedge (1:55): MP3
    School: Scripture (0:37): MP3
    Through the Knees (1:39): MP3
    Heirloom (Spines) (0:42): MP3
    Blessings Echoes Will Traumatize (1:24): MP3
    I Sing a Doubled Song (4:23): MP3
16. On the Perfection of Style (0:15): MP3
17. Two by Fours (for Also Rans) (0:38): MP3
18. Suite for Santob (3:05): MP3
19. (Tuning)Hooks (0:41): MP3

From Rift (Station Hill, 1989 / What Is Doubled, Shearsman, 2005)

20. Alphabet (0:43): MP3
21. from "Rift" (4:14): MP3
22. Torches (0:52): MP3
23. from "Leviticus" (2:59): MP3
24. from "Ambit" (4:10): MP3

Reading from The Dream of the Poem at the KWH, October 8, 2007

1. introduction (5:13): MP3
2. on writing, revolution, and Judaism (3:49): MP3
3. epigraph from The Dream of the Poem (2:33): MP3
4. Dunash and the hybridization of Arabic and Hebrew (7:29): MP3
5. "Will Her Love Remember?" by the wife of Dunash (2:55): MP3
6. "A Curse" by Yosef Ibn Avitor (3:08): MP3
7. "A Plea" by Yosef Ibn Avitor (1:18): MP3
8. "The Gazelle" by Shmu'el Hanagid (2:01): MP3
9. "The Multiple Troubles of Man" by Shmu'el Hanagid (1:58): MP3
10. "The Market" by Shmu'el Hanagid (1:36): MP3
11. "The Altar of Song" by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol (3:13): MP3
12. "Before My Being" by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol (4:54): MP3
13. "A Wedding Night's Consolation" by Yosef Ibn Tzaddiq (4:59): MP3
14. "The Wedding Night, Continued" by Avraham Ibn Ezra (2:36): MP3
15. "Curses' Composition" by Yehuda Alharizi (2:23): MP3
16. "Palindrome for a Patron" by Yehuda Alharizi (1:08): MP3
17. from The Battles of the Pen and the Scissors by Shem Tov Ardutiel (Santob de Carrion) (6:12): MP3
18. "Beyond Words" by Vidal Benveniste (1:32): MP3
19. "She Trapped Me" by Sa'adia Ibn Danaan (3:04): MP3
20. "Chiasmus for a Doe" by Sa'adia Ibn Danaan (0:34): MP3
21. Q&A Discussion (21:25): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics #11, Refusing The Wall, January 7, 2004

1. introduction (0:43): MP3
2. on moving to Jerusalem and starting Ibis Editions (3:44): MP3
3. bringing together distant and different literary works (4:09): MP3
4. translating into English and the tradition of translation (6:53): MP3
5. Peter Cole on his book Hymns & Qualms, linkage, and nourishment (2:41): MP3
6. discussing the section "I Sing A Doubled Song," from Hymns & Qualms (4:38): MP3
7. reading "I Sing A Doubled Song" (3:33): MP3
8. on "Speech's Hedge" and using the whole range of speech's possibility (1:08): MP3

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