Robin Blaser

©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 (19:40)

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

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

(54:05): RealAudio

Poetry Reading and Discussion at University of Buffalo - 1993

Recordings are not whole.
• Introduction and Part 1 (45:51): MP3
• Part 2 (19:54): 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

(36:30): Complete Reading

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

(41:02): MP3 , RealAudio

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

Complete Recording (37:46)

Reading at the Cultural Centre, Vancouver East, 2003

Complete Recording (43:07)

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.