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Peter Gizzi

Photo:Robert Seydel

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

Complete Reading (32:59): MP3

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

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

Introduction (1:43)
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

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

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 "Power, Enchanted World" (2:15): MP3

Also on Pennsound

PhillyTalks Episode #10 with Steven Farmer - March 1, 1999

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.