George Quasha

photo by Susan Quasha

All recordings by Chris Funkhouser unless otherwise noted.

Introduction by Chris Funkhouser: PDF

Reading strange beauty by stranger attraction, Barrytown, NY, March 18, 2024

complete recording (1:41:35): MP3

Reading crossroads angelics, Barrytown, NY, December 30, 2023

Complete recording (1:32:59): MP3

Reading gnostalgia for the present, Barrytown, NY, November 4, 2023

• Full text, photos, and additional info: Caesuramag.org
• Complete recording (1:34:54): MP3

Reading mirroring by alterity, Barrytown, NY, September 29, 2023

Complete recording (1:31:45): MP3

Reading non binding horizon, Barrytown, NY, September 1, 2023

Complete recording (1:34:09): MP3

Reading waking from myself, Barrytown, NY, May 20, 2023

Complete recording (1:29:35): MP3

Reading flayed flaws & other finagled opacities, Barrytown, NY, May 5, 2023

Complete recording (1:35:41): MP3

Reading ripping scales from Waking from Myself, Barrytown, NY, March 18, 2023

Complete recording (1:25:05): MP3

Reading tuning by fire, Barrytown, NY, December 29, 2022

Complete recording (1:29:44): MP3

Reading shadowing ideas in the rearview mirror, Barrytown, NY, November 20, 2022

Complete recording (1:27:38): MP3

Reading at 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, NY, September 3, 2022

Introduction by Susan Wides.

• Complete recording (0:26:04): MP3

Reading eternal discomfort of the heavenly bent from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, July 13, 2022

Complete recording (1:26:36): MP3

Reading sound talk from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, May 21, 2022

Complete recording (1:01:46): MP3

Reading the eros of soft exterior shocks from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, March 19, 2022

Complete recording (1:30:48): MP3

Reading every sound its word from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, January 15, 2022

Complete recording (1:11:53): MP3

Reading with Billie Chernicoff for Lunar Chandelier Press, Virtual Program, October 3, 2021

Recording courtesy of Kimberly Lyons; watch on YouTube: External Link

Reading alternate lingualities from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, July 18, 2021

Complete recording (1:25:23): MP3

Reading Dowsing Axis, Barrytown, NY, December 28, 2019

• Complete recording (1:28:11): MP3

Reading Hearing Other, Barrytown, NY, July 30, 2019

• Complete recording (1:36:17): MP3

Reading from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, November 17, 2018

Complete reading (1:17:05): MP3

1. Introduction (1:28): MP3
2. i’m the architect of any space i pass through waking (4:27): MP3
3. finding a world means liking it in here (3:02): MP3
4. news from deep space non (2:46): MP3
5. every sound is word (2:21): MP3
6. appear without fear (2:10): MP3
7. mirroring talks (2:36): MP3
8. peripheral temporality vision (2:52): MP3
9. gendered vexation zones (2:25): MP3
10. the art is taking the bad out of the bad (2:36): MP3
11. sounding lightning (2:49): MP3
12. talking her into being (2:28): MP3
13. body in hand (2:49): MP3
14. the tauntra of holding your horses (2:05): MP3
15. thinking’s from the word between (2:50): MP3
16. it happens here first wherever we are (2:13): MP3
17. no going back (2:37): MP3
18. spatial destiny spread against open sky (2:54): MP3
19. geno scenic aura (3:09): MP3
20. pronominal slimming (2:43): MP3
21. the shifting fate of leathers (2:36): MP3
22. stripped principal variable (2:28): MP3
23. it's not me anyway (2:44): MP3
24. in one mouth and out the other (2:38): MP3
25. neighborly lines (2:39): MP3
26. a vortex passed already (2:39): MP3
27. the tongue susceptible to divinization (2:28): MP3
28. erogenous issues of illicit publicity (2:24): MP3
29. hermanautical mappings (3:08): MP3

Reading from The Ghost In Between, Barrytown, NY, November 8, 2018

Complete reading (1:31:54): MP3

1. Introduction to the Ghost In-between (3:48): MP3
2. Tomorrow Never Comes (2:22): MP3
3. Falling Toward Waiting to Know (2:29): MP3
4. Accidental Accountants (2:38): MP3
5. Waving Back (2:44): MP3
6. Pronoun Phonics (2:28): MP3
7. Figuring Being Blown (2:12): MP3
8. Sun Sounds in the Tongue (2:33): MP3
9. Inverse Linguality (2:20): MP3
10. Catching My Instant (2:38): MP3
11. Co-configurative Eternities (2:05): MP3
12. Possibly Self Emanation (2:34): MP3
13. Mobile Heart Mobile Tongue (2:51): MP3
14. Nurture of Mind (2:41): MP3
15. Complete-Timing (2:35): MP3
16. Metaphoric Literalities (2:40): MP3
17. Wake Walking (2:12): MP3
18. Oh Mind Fear Flakes (2:39): MP3
19. Ad Hoc Reality (2:29): MP3
20. Momentary Make Up (2:16): MP3
21. Saying it Tongue in Belly (2:56): MP3
22. By No Means (2:23): MP3
23. Synaxius Centers (2:25): MP3
24. A Dove Dying Fall (2:31): MP3
25. Two Channel Brain Frame (2:25): MP3
26. An Other Floating World (2:48): MP3
27. Free made Epigram (2:34): MP3
28. Stressing Telling (2:41): MP3
29. Truer Lucinations (2:32): MP3
30. My True Self-The-Alien (2:57): MP3
31. Metaphor-the-Night-Boat (2:47): MP3
32. The-Glossology-of-Desire-Epigram (2:53): MP3
33. The-Underline (2:52): MP3
34. Silence-Ringing-in-Your-Ears_ (3:06): MP3
35. Inter-dimensional Signaling (2:57): MP3

Memorial reading for Gerrit Lansing in Kingston, NY, October 20, 2018

Complete Reading (9:11): MP3

Reading fromVerbal Paradise, Barrytown, NY, July 3, 2018

Complete reading (1:22:40): MP3

1. Introduction (2:18): MP3
2. Thinking Map (1:32): MP3
3. Surface Tension (1:53): MP3
4. Tongue Within Bounds (1:23): MP3
5. Minding Saying (1:52): MP3
6. Skipping Truth Like a Stone on Water (2:04): MP3
7. The Story Goes on Without Me (1:52): MP3
8. Language Speaking For itself is the Only One Speaking for All (1:22): MP3
9. Mind Mattering (2:13): MP3
10. Showing Up Over (1:35): MP3
11. Feeling True (1:30): MP3
12. hyper-Intentional Say (1:25): MP3
13. Spring Back (0:59): MP3
14. Closed by Senses Five (2:03): MP3
15. Elemental Atousal (1:42): MP3
16. Word Contains the Flow Over (1:35): MP3
17. Contrary Indications (2:06): MP3
18. Things Said to Themselves (1:28): MP3
19. Live All Life Times All (0:50): MP3
20. Homing Motions (1:12): MP3
21. A Breath a Work Apart (0:46): MP3
22. Looking In From Around (1:02): MP3
23. Living Orients (1:47): MP3
24. Playing Out (0:57): MP3
25. Passing Pure Lands Folded in Saying So (0:54): MP3
26. Saying Safe and Lean Too (0:52): MP3
27. The Point of Knowing (0:57): MP3
28. The Rhymes That Times Itself (1:43): MP3
29. Our Language Visions Truth be Told (1:18): MP3
30. Low Grade Shock Stepping it Up (1:21): MP3
31. A Hunt For Defining Gesture (1:41): MP3
32. ”In these lengthen victuals his brain often reeled” -Hawthorne (2:02): MP3
33. ”They reeled too and throw and staggered like a drunken man” Psalms 107:27 (2:09): MP3
34. ”In Syphisis and huge round stone did reel” Spencer (2:27): MP3
35. Whence What Come (1:02): MP3
36. Stepped Up Self Removal (1:43): MP3
37. Breaking Wave (1:19): MP3
38. Toning my Own (1:26): MP3
39. Watch Out Synaptic Dropdown into Undersense (2:05): MP3
40. Thorough Through in Through (2:58): MP3
41. Refusion (1:29): MP3
42. Wedge (0:53): MP3
43. Swallow (1:08): MP3
44. Seminal Role (1:32): MP3
45. Paridial Warbles (1:34): MP3
46. Lingual Qualia (0:45): MP3
47. Nights Ignition (0:49): MP3
48. Open Flat and Circle Gaps (2:00): MP3
49. In Seminal Sendings (0:56): MP3
50. honor the Clamour (1:48): MP3
51. Bis (0:34): MP3
52. Speaking by Way of a Tail (0:52): MP3
53. Flash Through (0:11): MP3
54. Still Thinking (0:43): MP3
55. Just Dowsing (0:47): MP3
56. Refining Jest (1:29): MP3
57. Doing With Mirrors (0:31): MP3
58. Seeming Saying (1:16): MP3

Reading from Glossodelia Attract (preverbs), October 26–November 21, 2017

October 26, 2017

• speaking animate (48:38): MP3
• real time linguality (21:28): MP3

November 2, 2017

• reals within reels & other sides (51:41): MP3
• feedback from the periphery (26:18): MP3

November 11, 2017

• sleight of scale 1-3 (9:12): MP3
• sleight of scale 4-23 (47:48): MP3
• ins and outs of neverbefore (46:58): MP3

November 21, 2017

• woman at the heart of it all (53:47): MP3



Reading from The Daimon of the Moment (preverbs), November 21–December 14, 2017

November 21, 2017

• the daimon of the moment / eyes on the road (28:35): MP3

November 29, 2017

• an artifact of my work, speaking (45:47): MP3
• going places places go (35:28): MP3

December 5, 2017

• things to keep between voices (54:13): MP3
• life below the bottom line (58:31): MP3

December 14, 2017

• wormhole poetics (32:00): MP3



Scorned Beauty Comes Up From Behind (preverbs), December 14, 2017

Complete recording (37:18): MP3




Things Done for Themselves (preverbs), December 19–22, 2017

December 19, 2017

• (Book I / Things Done for Themselves) things done for themselves / right sounds/ friends forever / tuning mind out / what it sounds like to be here (56:55): MP3
• (Book I / Things Done for Themselves) poetic faith / words live beyond their saying (15:43): MP3
• (Book II / Witnessing the Place Awake) mouth surfing / a sense of itself / hearing light walking down (14:20): MP3

December 22, 2017

• witnessing the place awake / omnidirectional transubstantiation / turning out to be / untold newly unnamed sayings (1:05:42): MP3



Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole (preverbs), December 22–27, 2017

December 22, 2017

• 1-11 (29:03): MP3

December 27, 2017

• 12-34 (57:03): MP3



Polypoikilos: matrix in variance (preverbs), December 27, 2017–January 13, 2018

December 27, 2017

• 1-11 (27:06): MP3

January 13, 2018

• 12-21 (24:38): MP3
• 22-34 (32:49): MP3



© 2022 George Quasha. These sound recordings available for non-commercial and educational use only. Distributed with permission by PennSound.