Larry Eigner


photo: Kit Robinson

1. Eigner reads his classic 1967 poem
[excerpt from the WKPFA program]
MP3 (0:29)

Again dawn

      the sky   dropped
                     its invisible whiteness

                      we saw       pass out
                                                   nowhere

                            empty the blue

                                          stars

                       our  summer
                                           on the ground

                like last night another
                                                  time

                                in fragments

2.
Eigner's remarks after reading "Again dawn" begin with his commenting on not recalling exactly what the poem meant. I have trancribed this short section -- Charles Bernstein
[excerpt from the WKPFA program]

Well I forget what I meant and …
disappointed, I guess.
You know my mother said to me to communicate you must speak clear …
first of all …
though I soon realized that immediacy and force take priority.

MP3 (0:30)

3.
Eigner interview for WKPFA (Berkeley) by Jack Foley on Feb. 9, 1994. 
Complete show MP3 (58:54)

4.
Eigner reading on November 28, 1978
Complete Reading (31:22): MP3

(recording courtesy of Ron Silliman)

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to Estate of Larry Eigner. © 2008 by the Estate of Larry Eigner. Distributed by PennSound.