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Keith Waldrop


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Art International Radio, operating at ARTonAIR.org, November 5, 2009

Program 1: Full Reading of Selected Poems

1. Introduction (0:54): MP3

from A Windmill Near Calvary (1968)
2. Conversion (2:10): MP3

from Windfall Losses (1977)
3. To Rosmarie in Bad Kissingen (2:05): MP3

from The Garden of Effort (1975)
4. A Hatful of Flood (7:35): MP3

from The Ruins of Providence (1983)
5. The Ruins of Providence (1:30): MP3

from A Ceremony Somewhere Else (1984)
6. How to Tell Distances (2:24): MP3

from Hegel's Family (1989)
7. Six Further Studies (5:27): MP3

from The Locality Principle (1995)
8. Indefinite Inscriptions (0:47): MP3
9. Theme (0:17): MP3

from The House Seen From Nowhere (2002)
10. Whether in the Body (1:18): MP3

Complete Recording (25:51): MP3

Program 2: Conversation with Charles Bernstein (30:13): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York. May 5, 1979

Complete Recording (17:46): MP3

Segue Series Reading with Claude Royet-Journoud at the Ear Inn, New York, November 3, 1984

  1. La Notion d'Obstacle (Gallimard, 1978) (31:38): MP3
    2. Keith Waldrop reads from his translation, The Notion of Obstacle (Windsor: Awede Press, 1978).
    Note: Royet-Journoud placed a ticking clock on the podium, which can be heard in the recording.
  2. Les Objets Contiennent l'Infini (Gallimard, 1983), Book 3 (prose section) (2:54): MP3
    3. Waldrop reads from his translation, Objects Contain the Infinite (Windsor VT: Awede, 1995).

Reading from his translations of Charles Baudelaire' s Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan), November 23, 2006

  1. Benediction (4:49): MP3
  2. The Life Before (1:02): MP3
  3. Don Juan in Hell (1:35): MP3
  4. Giantess (1:11): MP3
  5. Carrion (2:45): MP3
  6. Posthumous Remorse (1:10): MP3
  7. Invitation to the Voyage (2:09): MP3
  8. Spleen (1:23): MP3
  9. Danse Macabre (4:35): MP3
  10. A Voyage to Cythera (4:16): MP3
  11. To Her Too Merry (1:47): MP3
Recorded and edited by Steve Evans.

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 17, 2009

Complete Reading (47:48): MP3

Reading with Rosmarie Waldrop at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2009

  1. Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (3:48): MP3
  2. Sarah Dowling Introduces Rosmarie Waldrop (2:58): MP3
  3. Rosemarie Waldrop: Lawn of Excluded Middle (from Curves to the Apple) (7:57): MP3
  4. Rosemarie Waldrop: Time Ravel (7:54): MP3
  5. Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop read "Light Travels" (4:22): MP3
  6. Sarah Dowling Introduces Keith Waldrop (1:35): MP3
  7. Keith Waldrop Reads from The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (23:58): MP3, YouTube [excerpt]
Complete reading (52:42): MP3

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