David Bromige

1. Introduction by Katherine Hastings (10:08): MP3
2. from The Harbormaster of Hong Kong (3:29): MP3
3. "Sonnet" from Tight Corners & What's Around Them (0:46): MP3
4. Jack Foley reading "Often to a Cafe" (1:31): MP3
5. from My Poetry (5:12): MP3
6. Vulnerable Bundles #92 (4:48): MP3
7. Our Tongues (2:31): MP3
8. Katherine Hastings reading from Bill Vartnaw's reflections (4:40): MP3
9. David Bromige and Richard Denner reading from Spade (10:28): MP3
10. Canto 54 (4:48): MP3
11. Cecelia Bromige reading "Able to Describe the Verses" (2:24): MP3
12. Cecelia Bromige reading "Revolving Door" (1:30): MP3
13. Margaret Bromige reading "Abstract" (1:02): MP3
14. Cecelia Bromige reading "Still There" (1:08): MP3
15. Margaret Bromige singing "My Funny Valentine" (1:13): MP3
16. Conclusion (2:33): MP3

Complete Recording (58:17): MP3

Reading and Discussion for Heatstrings with Michael Davidson at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, April 23-24, 1998

Complete Reading (43:08): MP3

1. Introduction by A.L. Nielsen (3:20): MP3

from Desire:
2. The Romance of the Automobile (1:52): MP3
3. The Art of Capitalsim (0:48): MP3

from Tiny Courts in a World Without Scales:
4. Community Leaders (1:49): MP3
5. Manana from Heaven (1:48): MP3
6. But One Dimension (1:18): MP3

from T as in Tether:
7. One (1:03): MP3
8. Two (0:18): MP3
9. Three (0:38): MP3
10. Four (0:39): MP3
11. Five (0:52): MP3

from "Initializing," "Establishing," and "Authenticizing":
12. Opening Comments (2:15): MP3
13. Initializing 2: To A Drawing Board (0:54): MP3
14. Initializing 7.5 Time Out (1:28): MP3
15. Establishing 3: A Location (2:00): MP3
16. Establishing 6: Not Myself Tonight (1:03): MP3
17. Establishing 11: A Spill (1:41): MP3
18. Establishing 12: E is for Elephant (1:11): MP3
19. Comments on Ganesha (1:01): MP3
20. Establishing 13: While You Were Out (1:26): MP3
21. Authenticizing 5: They Gain Control of My Time (1:55): MP3
22. Authenticizing 13 (1:58): MP3


23. from Not Saying Enough for the Death Penalty (2:10): MP3
24. Apology as Explanation (1:41): MP3
25. The Dream of Rod Stewart (1:53): MP3
26. I Never Write Couplets (3:37): MP3

Complete Discussion (1:21:73): MP3

PhillyTalks episode #1 with Laura Moriarty - October 31, 1997

1. T as in Tether (3:14) MP3
2. The Signifier Known as George Bowering (1:08) MP3
3. Untitled (1:05) MP3
4. Vulnerable Bundles Number Ninety Two (4:35) MP3
5. Voracious Orifice I Cannot Express (5:34) MP3
6. Excerpts from Initializing (4:56) MP3
7. Excerpts from Establishing (4:33) MP3
8. Excerpts from Authenticizing (1:45) MP3
9. Another Refusal to Mourn (3:30) MP3
10. Prose Intermission (5:11) MP3

• Complete Discussion (1:12:35) MP3
• Complete Recording (1:56:47) MP3

The text of this program is available as PDF here.

Seminar at University of Buffalo, January 30, 1992

1. typicality and particularity (6:20): MP3
2. consciousness and habit (3:12): MP3
3. two kinds of invisibility and what breaks through the boundary (3:16): MP3
4. making strange (8:41): MP3
5. understandability, a literature of what is outstanding, and waking up habits (5:57): MP3
6. certainty and ambiguity in literature (2:10): MP3
7. disruptions, surprises, and mistakes in texts (8:27): MP3
8. anomalous words in lists from Karen Gordon's The Transitive Vampire (6:20): MP3
9. surprise and confusion in Alice Munro's "Wild Swans" (11:26): MP3
10. prose style in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (7:18): MP3
11. discussing Cydney Chadwick's "Enemy Clothing" (9:58): MP3
12. discussing Cyra McFadden's "The Serial" (5:01): MP3
13. maps and dialect representation (6:54): MP3
14. voyeurism and fantasy in prose (1:19): MP3
15. Thomas Hardy's writing (2:49): MP3
16. discussing the "T" section in Red Hats (15:47): MP3
17. digression in literature (15:32): MP3
18. discussing "Hieratics (7:19): MP3

Reading at University of Buffalo, January 29, 1992

1. Epigraph from Desire (translation from Nietzsche's The Joyful Wisdom) (1:29): MP3
2. The Art of Capitalism (1:07): MP3
3. The states supplanted gold (0:41): MP3
4. Community leaders (0:19): MP3
5. Kafka (0:28): MP3
6. Giant redwoods (0:34): MP3
7. Reality, of continuing interest (0:19): MP3
8. She wore white lipstick (0:14): MP3
9. Civ = blab (0:24): MP3
10. Ex catheter (0:25): MP3
11. Fiction of neutralized culture (0:21): MP3
12. Seated at the organ (groan), for Robert Grenier (0:38): MP3
13. These days the students demand to be tested (0:41): MP3
14. Song: Brilliantly inventive, for opal nations (1:10): MP3
15. Feeling for the blind, for Michael Palmer (0:57): MP3
16. Vehicle (0:17): MP3
17. Manana from heaven (0:19): MP3
18. One (0:18): MP3
19. Zither music (1:02): MP3
20. Open wide (0:35): MP3
21. The fate of presence in our time (0:25): MP3
22. The poet strolls at evening by the river, for Tom Sharp (0:35): MP3
23. Associations (0:25): MP3
24. The referents' lair, for George Bowering (0:46): MP3
25. Soyez raisonnable (0:48): MP3
26. Don't drool when you say lot-split (0:46): MP3
27. Scum to sun (0:32): MP3
28. Tubal legislature (0:30): MP3
29. Book ends (0:16): MP3
30. Clearings in the throat, for Anselm Hollo (1:09): MP3
31. The poet (0:46): MP3
32. Clocks, for Cecelia Belle (0:26): MP3
33. Ancient riff (0:47): MP3
34. Art as revenge/revenue (0:59): MP3
35. Might be right, for Samuel Brittan (2:12): MP3
36. P.g., or, a Canadian narrative, for Barry McKinnon (1:00): MP3
37. Meanwhile (1:20): MP3
38. Orphic (0:34): MP3
39. Trance ending (0:28): MP3
40. Male order brides, for Michael Davidson (1:19): MP3
41. Voice (0:18): MP3
42. Prophetic soul mode (0:38): MP3
43. Da capo (1:01): MP3
44. Good god! you, here? (0:31): MP3
45. Obligatory poem of the perspicacious child, for Robert Creeley (0:14): MP3
46. On going on, for Cydney Chadwick (1:14): MP3
47. Personal (1) (0:33): MP3
48. Personal (too) (0:19): MP3
49. So, a poetry of immediacy (0:23): MP3
50. Confidence (0:31): MP3
51. But one dimension (1:00): MP3
52. Where we came in (0:48): MP3

Memorial Reading for Robert Duncan, San Jose State University, Incognito Lounge, November 1990

• complete reading (17:31): MP3

Appearing on A.L. Nielsen's Incognito Lounge, UC Berkeley, May 23, 1989

• complete recording (22:13): MP3

Interviewing Stephen Ratcliffe, San Francisco State University, April 30, 1987

Discussion with Robert Grenier, May 7, 1986

complete discussion (1:35:33): MP3

Ear Inn, New York - October 5, 1985

• Introduction (1:46): MP3
• UC of You See (part 1) (12:44): MP3
• UC of You See (part 2) (9:03): MP3
• Geographist's History (19:08) MP3

St. Mark's Talks, October 4, 1985

• "Condition, Information, and the Paranoia of the New"


• David Bromige (1:34:00): MP3
• discussion (1:01:20): MP3

Ear Inn, New York - March 3, 1984

1. Red Hats (10:10): MP3
2. Lazy Susan (3:30): MP3
Complete reading (44:00): MP3

Reading at The Bakery, 1983

• complete reading (49:13): MP3

New York, c. 1980

1. Dear Charles (1:06): MP3
2. Shorn of Duration (1:06): MP3
3. This Second Kind of Happiness (1:06): MP3
4. Who Has Seen the Wind (0:56): MP3
5. Soon the Outlines of Things Began to Grow (0:52): MP3
6. Finally We Know Only We Are Unhappy (0:53): MP3
7. Nevertheless the Winter Wears On (0:47): MP3
8. Hence the Air of Joyful Resignation (0:58): MP3
9. We Had Reached That Stage (0:40): MP3
10. Meanwhile He Had Taken (1:36): MP3
11. Nor Is Today Really Any Different (0:43): MP3
12. As If I Were Only a Flower (0:39): MP3
13. Why After All Were We Not Destroyed in the Conflagration (0:53): MP3
14. But Of Course Since This (0:40): MP3
15. To Everything There Is a Season (0:54): MP3
16. At a Sign From You (0:45) MP3
17. You Discovered That There Was a Fork in the Road (0:48): MP3
18. A Little Cautiously and the Other Also (6:48): MP3
19. Shrinking Things to Make Us Feel Bigger (0:32): MP3
20. Cybil and the Psychological Model for Codhopin (1:52): MP3
21. My Poetry (5:25) MP3 (NOTE: cut is missing about 10 seconds of the poem)
22. My Compensations (Glurk) (26:24) MP3

Reading at the Ear Inn, with Carole Korzeniowsky, December 2nd, 1978

• Complete Reading, Part 1 (incudes Korzeniowsky) (41:20): MP3
• Complete Reading, Part 2 (incudes Korzeniowsky) (40:54): MP3
1. In the Restroom at the Grand Piano (2:35): MP3
2. Our Tongues (2:23): MP3
3. Humanism Truth (3:42): MP3
4. Seven Postcards from Seven Who Know Best (8:47): MP3
5. There Are Hours (5:09): MP3
6. In the Kitchen with the Norwegian (4:37): MP3
7. The Romance of the Automobile (2:19): MP3
8. Out of My Head (11:48): MP3

David Bromige delivering Poetry and Intention at a talk series curated by Bob Perelman, San Francisco, June 2, 1977

From the Bob Perelman tapes. Audio is progressively poorer toward the end.
• Part 1 (44:08): MP3
• Part 2 (59:29): MP3

Reading with Sherrill Jaffe, UC Berkeley, February 12, 1976

complete recording (1:47:14):

Reading at Tight Corners, Squaw Valley, August 18, 1974

• complete reading (43:23): MP3

Reading at Cal Tech, March 7, 1972

complete recording (42:25): MP3

Reading at Panjandrum Books, San Francisco, January 19, 1972

complete recording (45:15): MP3

Reading from Threads and Ends, UC Davis, August 1970

complete recording (57:59): MP3

Reading at home, February, 1970

• Track List:
1. In This Image
2. Why I Went There
3. After the Lantern was Switched Off
4. After the Engraving
5. My Fault
6. An Imperfect Failure
7. Fuck You
8. Surf
9. The Toll
10. A Little History
11. The Guarantee
12. A Providence
13. "The Scientists are in Terror, & the European Mind..."
14. For ---
15. "I, who kept changing..."
16. In Time
17. Fictions
18. A Mystery
19. A Slot
20. Some Current Dreams: 1-3
21. The Quivering Roadway
22. Psychoanalysis
23. Precept
24. Example
25. At Elsworth St. & Alston Way
26. Only Fair
27. First Love
28. The Haunting
29. Finders Keepers

complete recording (1:30:56): MP3

Reading in Albany, California, Fall 1968

• Track List:
1. We Could Get a Drink
2. Please, Like Me
3. A Call
4. A High Mass
5. The Faster
6. Why Not
7. Made
8. Weight Less Than the Shadow
9. Yes
10. A Final Mission
11. A Kind of Numbness

complete recording (34:25): MP3

Reading with Barry Gifford, 1968

complete recording (28:51): MP3

Reading with Ron Loewinsohn, San Francisco, January 29, 1964

complete recording (2:47:38): MP3

Segue Series Reading at HERE, date unknown

Complete Reading (15:51): MP3

Reading "8 Soliliquets," Date Unknown

complete recording (25:19): MP3

Reading New Poems, Date Unknown

complete recording (1:23:05): MP3

Reading from The Gathering, Date Unknown

complete recording (37:30): MP3

Unlabeled Reading

complete recording (1:23:05): MP3

David Bromige on PennSound Daily

• October 19, 2009: "David Bromige: "Intention and Poetry" Talk, San Francisco, 1977"
• September 10, 2009: "A Tribute to David Bromige, KRCB-FM, 2009"
• June 3, 2009: "In Memoriam: David Bromige (1933-2009)"

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