Robert Grenier

photo: © Charles Bernstein 2006

Close Listening -- readings and conversations at WPS1.Org
Clocktower Studio, New York, October 20, 2006

Robert Grenier lives in a sometime ecstatic state, but sometimes not, in Bolinas, California where he extends the tradition of the pastoral poem in ways entirely his own. One of the most influential poets of his generation, Grenier has, over the past forty years, pushed poetry into constantly new frontiers of practice and utterance. Over the past decade, Grenier has created handwritten poems that cross the upper limit of inscription to be both writing and drawing.

Grenier in conversation with Charles Bernstein, Oct. 20, 2006 —
two programs:

program one:
Grenier discusses his development as a poet, his breaking away from conventional book format, his movement toward handwritten or "drawn" poems, and his relation to Larry Eigner.
MP3 (26:57)

program two:
Grenier reads from and discusses Sentences, a digital version of which is linked to his EPC page.
MP3 (27:34)

WPS1 engineer: Lucy Sinanjuntak

Grenier reading at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY, April 8th, 1981
MP3 (52:30)

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. (C) 2006 Robert Grenier. Close Listening (C) 2006 Grenier and Charles Bernstein. Used with permission of Robert Grenier. Distributed by PENNSound.