Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

photo: ©2010 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Appearing on Close Listening hosted by Charles Bernstein, Kelly Writers House, November 3, 2010

Presented by Writers Without Borders.

1. Ludwig Joseph Johann, translation by Thomas Epstein (4:17): MP3
2. Ludwig Joseph Johann (2:49): MP3
3. But as in Anyone's Body, translation by Genya Turovskaya (0:38): MP3
4. But as in Anyone's Body (0:32): MP3
5. You See the Mountains and Think Them Immobile, translation by Lyn Hejinian (3:23): MP3
6. You See the Mountains and Think Them Immobile (3:15): MP3
7. Possible Indications, translation by Genya Turovskaya (2:48): MP3
8. Possible Indications (2:29): MP3
9. It is Told in the Qur'an, translated by Anna Glazova (7:21): MP3
10. To Trofim K. Dragomoshchenko, translation by Genya Turovskaya (3:57): MP3
11. To Trofim K. Dragomoshchenko (2:59): MP3
12. The Grandmother Story (introduction to Untitled Poem), translated by Kevin Platt (3:52): MP3
13. Untitled Poem, translation by Jacob Edmund (1:27): MP3
14. Untitled Poem (1:55): MP3
15. introduction to To a Statesman, translated by Kevin Platt (3:34): MP3
16. To a Statesman, translation by Genya Turovskaya (4:54): MP3
17. To a Statesman (3:29): MP3
18. There They Go, translation by Genya Turovskaya (2:38): MP3
19. There They Go (2:15): MP3

• complete reading (1:00:27): MP3 / MOV

Program Two: A Conversation with University of Pennsylvania students
June Elgudin, Valeria Tsygankova, James La Mare, Lily Applebaum, and Jane Shin

• complete conversation (29:38): MP3 / MOV

program one video:


program two video:


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 30, 2010

• complete reading (46:17): MP3

Reading at Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 11, 2007

Translations by Lyn Hejinian, Genya Turovskaya and Jacob Edmund, read by Christian Hawkey.
Recorded by William Owen.

1. Introductions by Alexander Skidan, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Christian Hawkey (5:18): MP3
2. but, as in anyone's body... / Но, как в теле любого... [no, kak v tele lubogo...] (1:21): MP3
3. in my declining years... / На старости лет я скзал рабу... [na starosti let ia skazal rabu...] (3:59): MP3
4. there they go, writing poems... / Вот они пишут стихи [vot oni pishut stikhi...] (3:53): MP3
5. is the fault yours... / Разве твоя в том вина [razve tvoia v tom vina...] (7:50): MP3
6. Lion-headed, bronze-winged... / Лвино-голове, вронзово-крыле [Lvino-golovye, bronzovo-krylye...] (6:04): MP3
7. six hours to waking, if not to sleep... (1:54): MP3
8. Question and Answer break (9:28): MP3
9. To The Statesman / Политику [Politiku] (10:33): MP3

complete recording (50:40): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series at the Ear Inn, March 11, 1990

• complete recording (34:10): MP3

Two films by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko on Sergei Kurekhin




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See also: Dragomoshchenko photos

These recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2007 Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. Close Listening shows © 2010 Charles Bernstein & Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. Used with permission of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. Distributed by PennSound.