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A Selection

  1. The Inclination of the Earth (0:37)
  2. Home Address (1:40)
  3. My Father Photographed with Friends (1:28)
  4. The Changes (1:34)
  5. At Tikal (2:04)
  6. The Annihilation of Matter (1:23)
  7. The Beautiful Wall, Machu Picchu (1:37)
  8. The Nature of Musical Form (1:19)
  9. The World in Time and Space (1:18)
  10. The Outcry (0:49)
  11. The Smile on the Face of a Kouros (3:12)
  12. Colloquy on a Bed (1:31)
  13. On Credo Ut Intelligam (4:56)
  14. On Divers Geometries (1:17)
  15. Uncle Will (1:55)
  16. The Real Surrounding: On Canaletto's Venice (2:57)
  17. That Something There Is Should Be (0:56)
  18. Something Like Tepees (1:19)
  19. The Abnegation (1:06)
  20. Yes: I Mean So OK -- Love (0:29)
  21. The Ignorant Lust After Knowledge (1:18)
  22. Dos-A-Dos (1:13)
  23. The Fiction of Shape (1:36)
  24. The Importuning of Truth (1:41)
  25. To Praise the Music (1:28)
  26. Where It Ends (0:55)
  27. The Poems: All Concessions Made (1:29)
  28. Names Like Barney Cain's (0:24)
  29. The Rapport (0:29)
  30. To Be a Saint Like Christopher (0:26)
  31. The Passage (0:35)
  32. On Being Together (0:28)
  33. The World (0:41)
  34. The Deprived (0:22)
  35. The Inability (0:23)
  36. The Lack of Information (0:19)

Recording History:

All selections were recorded by Verna Gillis in Hudson Falls, New York on October 13, 1978.

Credits: These poems have previously appeared in My Father Photographed with Friends (1976); Light and Dark (1956); The World, the Worldless (1964); The Empty Hands (1969); That Tantalus (1971); To Praise the Music (1972); Silence and Metaphor (1975); The Meantime (1976); Finding Losses (1976).

Staff for this recording:

  • Producer: Poetry in Pubic Places
  • Recording Engineer: Verna Gillis
  • Exec. Producer: Alan Austin

Reading, 1979 (location and exact date unknown)

complete recording (53:59): MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author and the Columbia University Libraries. © 2008 William Bronk. Used with permission of the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Distributed by PennSound.