Robin Blaser

Photo © 2006 Mark Goldstein

Reading in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 1965

Complete reading (15:32): MP3

1. The Moth Poem (13:48): MP3
   
2. The Translator: a Tale (1:44): MP3
   

(recording courtesy of the estate of Robert Creeley)

Reading at the University of British Columbia, 1970

Complete Recording: MP3 (19:40)

1. Translation (0:33): MP3
2. Winter Words (0:34):MP3
3. The Stories (0:43): MP3
4. In a Dark (0:18): MP3
5. The Prints (0:27): MP3
6. Love (0:26): MP3
7. The Private I (0:54): MP3
8. Song (0:26): MP3
9. 1st Tale: Over (0:34): MP3
10. 2nd Tale: Return (1:26): MP3
11. At Last (0:41): MP3
12. Aphrodite of the Leaves (0:26): MP3
13. The City (0:48): The City
14. The Translator: A Tale (1:08): MP3
15. Sophia Nichols (1:58): MP3
16. A Gift (0:49): MP3
17. Bottom's Dream (0:47): MP3
18. The Finder (1:07): MP3
19. Out of the Window (1:03): MP3
20. Merlin (0:56): MP3
21. The Cry of Merlin (2:05): MP3
22. envoi (0:51): MP3

Charles Olson Lectures - Buffalo, 1987

Introduction by Robert Creeley

• Lecture 1, part 1 (46:19): MP3 , RealAudio
• Lecture 1, part 2 (38:57): MP3 , RealAudio
• Lecture 2, part 1 (46:09): MP3 , RealAudio
• Lecture 2, part 2 (26:00): MP3 , RealAudio
• Lecture 3, part 1 (44:45): MP3 , RealAudio
• Lecture 3, part 2 (44:03): MP3 , RealAudio

Poetry Reading - Buffalo, 1987

Complete Reading (54:05): MP3, RealAudio

1. Introduction by Robert Creeley (10:07): MP3
2. Introduction to Cups (2:49): MP3
3. Cups, parts 1 - 12 (12:49): MP3
4. Of the Land of Culture (4:08): MP3
5. A Bird in the House (1:43): MP3
6. In the Tree Tops (Michaux) (2:34): MP3
7. Image Nation 24 from Exody (30:50): MP3

Complete Reading (1:05:46): MP3

On BBC Radio - 1994

Relocating the High Lyric Voice (featuring John Kinsella, Denise Riley, & Iain Sinclair): MP3, RealAudio

"Collapse" - A Reading from The Holy Forest, University of British Columbia, 1995

Complete Reading (36:30): MP3

This CD comes from an issue of Collapse Magazine, published in 1996. The reading, which took place at the University of British Columbia's Frederic Wood Theatre, occurred at a conference held in honor of Robin Blaser's seventieth birthday entitled "The Recovery of the Public World, a celebration of his poetry and his poetics."

Lecture on Robert Duncan - Buffalo, 1996

Complete Lecture: (41:02): MP3 , RealAudio

Great Companion: Dante Alighieri - Universita d'Annuzio, April 22, 1997

Complete Recording (37:46): MP3

Reading at the Cultural Centre, Vancouver East, 2003

Complete Recording (43:07): MP3

Reading at Woodland Pattern Bookstore - Milwaukee, October 2, 2004

• Introduction (3:13): MP3
• For Don Allen (5:14): MP3
• Reading (56:09): MP3, RealAudio

Language is Love - Talk at Woodland Pattern Bookstore, October 3, 2004

• Part One (10:50): MP3
• Part Two (22:52): MP3
• Part Three (7:06): MP3
• Part Four (5:55): MP3
• Part Five (7:12): MP3

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

• Episode #8, "The Inferno," November 24, 2003 (28:38): MP3
• Episode #57, "Mythscape," 2004 (29:59): MP3
• Episode #133, "The Holy Forest," March 11, 2007 (45:03): MP3

Robin Blaser on PennSound Daily

• August 14, 2009: "Robin Blaser: Newly Segmented SUNY-Buffalo Reading"
• May 8, 2009: "In Memorium: Robin Blaser (1925-2009)"
• January 4, 2008: "Kathleen Fraser and Robin Blaser on Dante"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2009 by Robin Blaser. Used with permission of Robin Blaser. Distributed by PennSound.