Robert Duncan

Readings


Reading at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, June 18, 1959
Often I Am Permitted (2:00): MP3

Original recording by the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. PennSound publication made with thanks to the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University for their archival work.


Reading in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1961
July 23 Reading (3:05:22): MP3
July 24 Reading (3:32:11): MP3
July 25 Reading (3:10:17): MP3


Reading in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 26, 1963
1. The Question (3:01) : MP3
2. Structure of Rime 9 (2:11) : MP3
3. Structure of Rime 10 (1:41) : MP3
4. Structure of Rime 11 (1:31) : MP3
5. Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal (2:15) : MP3
6. Apprehensions (17:35) : MP3
7. Come Let Me Free Myself (1:39) : MP3
8. Risk (4:44) : MP3
9. Structure of Rime: "Back to the figure..." (4:34) : MP3
10. Osiris and Set (4:31) : MP3
11. Two Presentations (5:46) : MP3
12. A Song of the Old Order (4:04) : MP3
13. Witch's Song (from Faust Foutu: A Comic Masque) (3:26) : MP3
14. Opening: On A Set of Romantic Hymns — To Michael McClure and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1:28) : MP3
15. A Set of Romantic Hymns (8:38) : MP3
16. Sonnet 1(2:53) : MP3
17. Sonnet 2 (0:57) : MP3
18. Sonnet 3, from Dante's Sixth Sonnet (0:53) : MP3
19. Sonnet 4 (1:34) : MP3
20. Opening: On the Pindar poem and Apprehensions (1:16) : MP3
21. Witch's Song from Faust Foutu (repeated) (2:16) : MP3
22. A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar (12:12) : MP3

complete reading (1:34:05) : MP3


Reading at the University of British Columbia, August 5, 1963
complete reading (2:02:38): MP3


Reading in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 29, 1964
1. Introduction & Opening: On The Open Field (5:17) : MP3
2. Roots and Branches (1:18) : MP3
3. What Do I Know of the Old Law? (3:23) : MP3
4. Opening: On Publication & The Floating Bear (2:26) : MP3
5. Afterthought (4:47) : MP3
6. Opening: Play in H.D. Book (1:09) : MP3
7. "What Time of Day Is It?..." (6:53) : MP3
8. Opening: On "Passages" (The Cantos and Spring & All) (3:50) : MP3
9. Passages (7:33) : MP3
10. A Song of the Old Order (2:48) : MP3
11. Witch's Song (from Faust Foutu: A Comic Masque) (3:29) : MP3

complete reading (44:07) : MP3

At The Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965
1. Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow (from The Opening of the Field) (1:08) MP3
2. Structure of Rime 9 (from The Opening of the Field) (2:03) MP3
3. Structure of Rime 10 (from The Opening of the Field) (1:38) MP3
4. Structure of Rime 11 (from The Opening of the Field) (1:13) MP3
5. Apprehensions (from Roots and Branches) (17:02) MP3
6. Osiris and Set (from Roots and Branches) (2:54) MP3
7. A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar (from The Opening of the Field) (11:14) MP3
8. The Continent (from Windings) (4:30) MP3
9. The Multiversity (from Groundwork, Vol. 1) (4:04) MP3

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