Peter Gizzi

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• Photo:Robert Seydel

Close Listening

• Reading and Conversation at Art Radio WPS1 with Charles Bernstein, March 17, 2008
• Conversation (23:23): MP3
• Reading (26:30): MP3

• from Periplum and other poems (1987-1992)
• Thirty Sentencesfor No One (3:05): MP3
• Periplum (0:35) MP3

• from Artificial Heart (1998)
• Another day on the Pilgrimage (5:22) MP3
• Tous les Matins du Monde (1:09) MP3

• from Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003)
• Plain Song (2:14) MP3
• Beginning With a Phrase from Simone Weil (2:15) MP3

• from The Outernationale (2007)
• The Quest (0:32) MP3
• The Outernationale (2:18) MP3
• Untitled Amherst Specter (0:38) MP3
• Protest Song (0:38) MP3
• A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (7:43) MP3

• Close Listening Engineer: Jeannie Hooper.
• Additional technical support: Michael Hennessey

Reading at the University of Buffalo, February 12, 1992

• complete reading (4:57): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, June 6, 1992

• Complete Reading (32:59): MP3

Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 2, 1993

complete reading (16:35): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

• Pierced (7:24): MP3

Cross-Cultural Poetics, October 14, 2007

• Gizzi reads from and discusses The Outernationale.
  (29:55): MP3 (27MB)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 14, 2004

1. Introduction (1:43)
2. A History of the Lyric (5:34)

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
The ethics of dust
In the garden
To his wife far off in a time of war
A history of the lyric
Coda


3. A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (1 & 3) (3:44)
4. Add This to the House (0:46)
5. Chateau If (1:17)
6. In Defense of Nothing (0:34)
7. Overtakelessness (0:55)
8. Revival (6:13)

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

• Reading "Leviathan" from Materials MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, New York, April 8, 2008

• Gizzi reads Oppen's "Leviathan" (1:10): MP3
• Gizzi reads Oppen's "World, World" (1:10): MP3
• Gizzi reads Oppen's "Power, Enchanted World" (2:15): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, April 7, 2009

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Also on Pennsound

• PhillyTalks, Episode #10 with Steven Farmer - March 1, 1999
• Peter Gizzi reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

Peter Gizzi on PennSound Daily

• May 23, 2008: "A New Close Listening, Reading, and Conversation with Peter Gizzi"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
and educational use only.Close Listening ©2008 by Charles Bernstein & Peter Gizzi. All rights to all the other recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2008 Peter Gizzi.

Used with permission of Peter Gizzi. Distributed by PennSound.