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>>>Collected Readings from Girly Man

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 "Asylum" from Islets/Irritations, MP3 file, recorded in Buffalo by Juliette Valery, Sept. 13, 1998; in Crossing, audio CD (Bordeaux, France: Format Americaine, 2000)

"Amblyopia." Guess Language. Audio cassette published by Audio Muzixa Qet (C-60, Madison: 1986) .Bernstein reads Ambliopia from The Sophist. MP3 (18:32)
Cassette publication included Lyn Hejinian reading Redo on other side.

"Azoot D'Puund" from Poetic Justice (Republics of Reality), MP3 file, recorded for Cabinet #1, Winter 2000

"The Boy Soprano " (from With Strings), May 6, 2008, recorded by Lars Hermansson (Swedish Radio): MP3

 Claire-in-the-Building, from Postmodern Culture 1994: MP3 ; original .au file

 "Dada 2," Raymond Federman & Charles Bernstein,1996 (based on a poem by Federman, digitally edited by Bernstein from the Federman LINEBreak show) (0:45): MP3

"Dark City" -- a reading from Dark City recorded for the Live at the Ear project in 1992.

 "Johnny Cake Hollow," from Rattapallax, 2005: MP3
"A Defence of Poetry" from My Way: Speeches and Poems (rec.1994 by Chris Funkhouser, from Kenning); text (from Cybergraphia)

"Emotions of Normal People" (from Dark City), Radio Reading Project, 1998 (22:07): MP3

"Empty Biscuits" (from With Strings) (1:00): MP3

"How Empty Is My Bread Pudding," Oct. 17th, from  Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003 ]

"The Inevitable Flow of Material Things through the Pores of the Years" from With Strings mid-90s (7 minutes): MP3

"The Influence of Kinship Patterns Upon Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus"  (from Dark City), Radio Reading Project, 1998 (5:38): MP3

" Johnny Cake Hollow" (from With Strings) (Rattalallax, 2002): MP3

"Like This" from With Strings, mid-90s (7 minutes).

Mao Tse Tung Wore Khakis, from Postmodern Culture 1994: MP3; original .au file (Or select "Soapy Water," "Claire-in-the-Building," and "Mao Tse Tung Wore Khakis" as " Three Poems" via a connect to Postmodern Culture.)

"Matters of Policy" from Controlling Interests, May 14, 1979 (Howe/Pacifica) (11:31): MP3

 "Soul Under" (from Shade), from Sugar, Alcohol, and Meat (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1980): MP3 (2:48' via Ubuweb)

"Memories" (from With Strings), May 6, 2008, recorded by Lars Hermansson (Swedish Radio): MP3

"Pockets of Lime," LogoDaedalus Issue #6, Autumn 1993 (15:16): MP3

Soapy Water, from Postmodern Culture. 1994: MP3 ; original .au file

"Defence of Poetry" from My Way: Speeches and Poems, July 20, 2001, American Academy of Poets, Columbia University (4:57): MP3  text
"Thank You for Saying Thank You": MP3

"Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold" from My Way, MP3 file, recorded in Bleancourt, France on Dec. 13, 1999; from Poésie Américaine: 1950-2000. ed. Jacques Darras (Brussels: Le Cri Editions of In'Hui 56/57, 2002)

"Virtual Reality" (from Dark  City), May 6, 2008, recorded by Lars Hermansson (Swedish Radio) (2:31): MP3

"War Stories" (excerpt), Oct. 18th, from Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics
[Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003 ]

Reading Blake's "The Grey Monk" for the Romantic Circles: MP3 / text

MoMA Futurist Manifesto Centennial, Feb. 20, 2009

Reading Jackson Mac Low's "Forties 19," AWP Conference, Boston, March 8, 2013 (with cris cheek) (6:47): MP3 & video

The Introvert (Collectif Generation, 2010) -- reading suite of poems that make up this book June 10, 2013: (12:35): MP3

Lyrikline (Berlin) studio session in Berlin, May 15, 2015
"Substance Abuse" (from Islets/Irritations) with text of poem and German tr.
"The Klupsy Girl" (from Islets/Irritations) with text of poem and German tr.
"A Test of Poetry" (from My Way: Speeches and Poems) with text of poem and German tr.

Reading Eileen Myles's "What Tree Am I Waiting," Oct. 7, 2015 at the Poetry Project launch for her selected poems: MP3

"Come to Think of It" from The Course with Ted Greenwald, private recording, Sept. 22, 2016 (3:14): MP3

Reading "After Campion" (from All the Whiskey in Heaven for Harold Schimmel, June 11, 2017, Jerusalem. (1:45): MP3

"Ballad Laid Bare by Its Devices (Even)" (from Near/Miss) Poets House, New York, July 11, 2019 (20:42): MP3


Norman Fischer & Charles Bernstein, "Where Here Were We" (2020)
recordings for Fence Portal (4/17/20)
Norman reading March 25-April 13: mp3
Charles reading March 25-April 13: mp3
Norman reading April 17-18: mp3
Charles reading April 17-18: mp3
Norman and Charles together: April 17-18: mp3

"The Grief I Feel": Reading / audio setting of Lewis Warsh's "1000 Poetry Readings" from Blue Heaven (1978), for Montez Radio Warsh memorial, 12-12-20
MP3, Wav

Mallarmé's "Salute" tr. Peter Manson, "Greeting," Nov. 11, 2021, (1:03): MP3

"The Influence of Kinship Patterns on an Ambiguous Stimulus" from Dark City, at Flow Chart Foundation's Ashbery celebration, Hudson, NY, July 31, 2022.
(6:50): MP3

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