Alan Davies

photo: © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening
WPS1 Reading and Conversation. January 5, 2006

Program One:
Interview with Charles Bernstein (27:02)

Program Two (Selected Poems)
Complete Program (26:56)

Singles:
Book 2 (19:36)  | text
from Book 3  / Bad Dad (5:42) | text

Close Listening is produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
Studio Engineer: David Weinstein

© 2007 Alan Davies and Charles Bernstein.

Ithaca, NY, May 8, 1982
Full Reading (45:48)
Singles:
1. This predilection for the mind in art. Where did I get it? I, a private and concrete individual, hate structures, and if I reveal Form in my way, it is in order to defend myself. (5:38)
2. " 101 " (10:29)
3. Caring More For You By Far (15:26)
4. L I E S (6:25)
5. SHARED SENTENCES (6:21)


Ear Inn, New York, November 17, 1984
Full Reading (35:08)


from Live at the Ear
Feb. 4, 1989
From SHARED SENTENCES (4:42)


Reading at Kelly Writers House
April 11, 1997
1. Cold Spring (22:15)
In his introduction, the poet notes that these poems had been written about a year earlier.
2. Question and answer session (32:47)
Hosts and participants in the discussion included Louis Cabri, Joshua Schuster, and Gil Ott.


Double Happiness (Segue Series, New York)
May 5, 2001
1. Introduction (3:13)
2. Book One (21:19)
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Complete Reading at Double Happiness (24:36)


Bowery Poetry Club, NY (Segue Series)
Nov. 5, 2005
Book 7 (35:25)

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