Barbara Guest

Barbara Guest Praise Day - Tribute at The Bowery Poetry Club

October 21, 2006

complete reading (1:18:40): MP3

featuring:

• Lytle Shaw (11:10): MP3
• Lewis Warsh (6:51): MP3
• Marcella Durand (7:47): MP3
• Charles Bernstein (14:58): MP3
• Africa Wayne (12:18): MP3
• Charles North (8:53): MP3
• Erica Kaufman(8:53): MP3
• Conclusion (6:19): MP3

with special guest Hadley Haden Guest and host Kristin Prevallet

Reading from The Red Gaze

The Red Gaze (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

Recorded for PennSound by Allan Graham, Berkeley, April 7, 2004:

1. Nostalgia of the Infinite (1:39) [titled "Nostalgia" in the book]: MP3
2. An Afternoon in Jeopardy (1:24): MP3
3. Imagined Room (0:57): MP3
4. She Honors De Chirico (0:54) [title changed to "Loneliness" for the book]: MP3
5. A Different Honey (0:39): MP3
6. A Short Narrative (0:29): MP3
7. Roman Stripes (0:56): MP3
8. The Next Floor (1:02): MP3
9. Freedom (0:43): MP3
10. The Hungry Knight (0:35): MP3
11. The Trickster (0:44): MP3
12. The Past (0:31): MP3
13. Modernism (0:46): MP3
14. A Burst of Leaves (0:35): MP3
15. The Smooth Stair (0:49): MP3
16. Alteration (0:32): MP3
17. Freed Color (1:35): MP3
18. Green Numbers (0:50): MP3
19. The Brown Vest (0:39): MP3
20. The Gold Tap (0:22): MP3
21. The Red Gaze (0:45): MP3
22. A Dawn Walk (0:36): MP3
23. Untitled (0:23) [on p. 36 of the book]: MP3
24. Hans Hofmann (2:26) [slightly longer than the published version]: MP3
25. Vignettes (0:26) [one line shorter than version published in the book]: MP3
26. Echoes (0:20) [one line shorter than version published in the book]: MP3
27. Instructions (0:29): MP3
28. Composition (0:41): MP3
29. Supposition (0:15): MP3
30. [quotation from Theodor Adorno] (0:16) [the book's epigraph]: MP3

Studio recording called The Location of Things (reading from poems dated 1960 to 1979)

[Note: The Location of Things is the title of Guest's 1960 volume; this commercial recording included readings from that book and others.]

1. Windy Afternoon (0:49) [Collected Poems, p. 8]: MP3
2. The Piazza (1:52) [titled "Piazzas," CP, p. 4]: MP3
3. Santa Fe Trail (1:23) [in The Open Skies, CP p. 49]: MP3
4. Sunday Evening (1:10) [CP, p. 13]: MP3
5. The Blue Stairs (2:13) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 61]: MP3
6. Saving Tallow (1:46) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 71]: MP3
7. The Return of the Muses (2:15) [CP, p. 72]: MP3
8. A Handbook of Surfing (9:55) [CP, p. 85]: MP3
9. Turkey Villas (2:22) [CP, p. 64]: MP3
10. Egypt (1:15) [from Moscow Mansions, CP, p. 100]: MP3
11. Roses (1:20) [CP, p. 128]: MP3
12. Passage (for John Coltrane) (1:21) [CP, p. 130]: MP3
13. Knight of the Swan (11:42) [CP, p. 108]: MP3
14. The Countess from Minneapolis (excerpts) (8:29) [CP, pp. 143-66]: MP3
15. The Turler Losses (excerpts) (9:25) [CP, p. 169-182]: MP3

Credits for The Location of Things:

Selections 1-4, Poems, Doubleday and Company, Inc. Selections 5-9, The Blue Stairs, Corinth Books. Selections 10-13, Moscow Mansions, A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press. Selection 14, The Countess from Minneapolis, Burning Deck. Selection 15, The Turler Losses, Mansfield Book Mart Ltd. Copyright © 1962, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979 by Barbara Guest.

Recording History: All selections were recorded at Artist's Access Studio, New York, New York, May, 1984 Producer: Anne Becker Recording Engineer: Peter Darmi Post Prod. Engineers: Anne Becker & Katherin Mattern Executive Producer: Alan Austin

Reading and lecture/discussion at SUNY Buffalo - April 1 & 2, 1992

poetry reading - April 1

Entire reading (43:50): MP3

1. The Nude (8:02) [from Fair Realism, 1989; CP, p. 238]: MP3
2. The Farewell Stairway (3:15) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]: MP3
3. An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:37) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 221]: MP3
4. Heavy Violets (0:46) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]: MP3
5. The Cradle of Culture (2:08) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 250]: MP3
6. Otranto (6:38) [from Defensive Rapture, 1993; CP, p. 300]: MP3
7. Dove (2:26) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 261]: MP3
8. Defensive Rapture (2:33) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 277]: MP3
9. Borderlands (1:57) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 288]: MP3
10. Winter Horses (2:04) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 304]: MP3
11. The Glass Mountain (3:17) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 295]: MP3
12. Earrings (1:17) [Note: This poem, beginning "Running over the edge...," is not in Collected and might be unpublished.]: MP3
13. Dissonance, Royal Traveller (4:10) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 289]: MP3

lecture and seminar discussion - April 2

• I. Lecture titled "How I Got out of Poetry and into Prose" [listen] (20:24): MP3
• II. Seminar discussion [listen] (1:37:35) [listen]: MP3
• [Note: This recording drops out once at 0:26:00 minutes and again and 1:13:00 when cassette was flipped or changed during recording.]

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 25, 1986

• Howe, Owen, and Einzing read Barbara Guest's poetry
• Complete Reading (30:27): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 2, 1993

Complete Reading (30:59): MP3

Appearing on Susan Howe's Poetry Program on WBAI-Pacifica Radio, April 13, 1978

Complete program (1:06:31): MP3

Appearing with John Ashbery on P.E.N. Portraits, hosted by Anne Fremantle, WNYC, May 22, 1977

Complete program (28:52): MP3

1. Passage (for John Coltraine) [CP, p. 130] (1:25): MP3
2. June (0:17): MP3

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

Complete program (1:02:12): MP3

LINKS

UC Berkeley Lunch Poems: videos

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2008 the estate of Barbara Guest. Used with permission of Barbara Guest. Distributed by PennSound.