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Rachel Blau DuPlessis


Close Listening recording session at Studio 111, the University of Pennsylvania, April 27, 2005

A Conversation with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, with host Charles Bernstein (36:02)

From Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)
1. Draft 20 - Incipit (5:35)
2. excerpt from Draft 19: Working Conditions (4:16) (from LIVE KWH/WXPN radio show)
3. Draft 25 - Segno (5:34)  [ALSO, from KWH LIVE Draft Twenty-Five Seigno (4:53)]
From Poker 4 (Summer 2004)
4. Draft 63 - Dialogue of Self & Soul (6:49)

From: Drafts. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, unnumbered (Salt, Cambridge, England, 2004) & Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)
5. Draft 46 - Edge (9:18)
6. Draft 64 - Forward Slash (5:05) (unpublished)
7. 4 Sections from Draft 51 - Clay Songs (12:34)
8. Draft 61 - Pyx (5:21)

produced by Charles Bernstein

recording engineer: Chris Mustazza




from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008
"Section 9: Of Being Numerous" (7:54): MP3


Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 5, 2008
1.
Introduction (4:52)
2. Draft 64: Forward Slash (8:06)
3. from Draft 74: Wanderer (10:55)
4. Draft 88: X-Posting (a variation on Ingeborg Bachmann's "Keine Delikatessen") (16:25)
5. from Draft 85: Hard Copy (12:47)

complete reading (54:17): MP3

Selected portions of this event were recorded on video:

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Studio 111 Session, October 12, 2007

from Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)
1. Draft 58: In Situ (8:03):
MP3
2. Draft 60: Rebus (7:26): MP3
3. Draft 72: Nanifesto (5:59): MP3
4. Draft 75: Doggerel (14:07): MP3
5. Draft 85: Hard Copy (41:10): MP3


Studio 111 Session produced by Michael S. Hennessey



on Virginia Woolf, from Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves
Through Modernism
at the Kelly Writers House, October 13, 2000

Draft 38: Georgics and Shadow (10:28): MP3
Draft 48: Being Astonished (11:54): MP3



Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics, presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
reading Friday, October 17, 2003 (6:27): MP3
reading Saturday, October 18, 2003 (4:28): MP3



from PhillyTalks Episode #13, November 15, 1999
from Draft 48: Being Astonished (6:47): MP3
Draft 41: Of This (18:56): MP3



Reading at Robin's Books, Philadelphia, May 11, 1988
1. introductory comments (2:54):
MP3
2. Attar (from Tabula Rosa) (1:40): MP3
3. introduction to Drafts (1:48): MP3
4. Draft 2: She (11:54): MP3
5. Draft 3: Of (9:40): MP3
6. Draft 6: Midrush (12:46): MP3
7. Draft 7: Me (6:31): MP3
(this track cuts off prematurely)

complete reading (48:23): MP3

(recording courtesy of the Herschel Baron Collection)



See also: The Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference at Columbia University and Barnard College,
September 17-19, 2004 for video footage of Duplessis' presentation.


These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2005-2008 Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Studio 111 conversation © 2005 Rachel Blau DuPlessis/Charles Bernstein. Used with permission of Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Distributed by PennSound.