Ann Lauterbach

photo: © 2006 Charles Bernstein/Pennsound

Close Listening
Readings and conversations at WPS1.Org
Clocktower Studio, New York, December 4, 2006

Program One: Poetry Reading

Full program (27:45)

Singles:

from If In Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 ( New York: (Penguin, 2001):
1. Typography (2:47)
2. Diorama of the Uninhabited Yes (2:23)
3. On (Thing) (1:02)
4. Poise on Arrow (2:06)
5. Eclipse with Object (1:19)
6. Missing Ages (4:08)
7. Arm's Way, Harm's Reach (2:55)
8. The French Girl (2:29)
9. True and False Green (0:44
10. Quotations from Reality (1:02)

from Hum (New York: Penguin, 2005):
11. Instruction (1:02)
12. Seen, Overheard (1:27)
13. Opera (1:03)
14. Postscript (1:41)

Program Two
Lauterbach in conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:27)
Lauterbach talks about sound, performance, and folk music and goes on to engage the difficult relation of gender and authority.  She also discusses "Missing Ages," a poem she read on program one, and also her essay collection, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (New York: Viking, 2005).

Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
WPS1 Studio Engineer: Lucy Sinanjuntak
© 2006 Ann Lauterbach and Charles Bernstein



from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008
"George Oppen: How Shall I Speak?"; Lauterbach's poem, "Oppen's Way" (8:40): MP3


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 4, 2006
complete reading (36:39): MP3


from the Live at the Ear CD
"Opening Day" from Clamor, recorded January 4, 1992 (4:38): MP3

ALSO ON PENNSOUND:
Lauterbach reads John Ashbery's "Litany" with the author

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
and educational use only. © 2008 Ann Lauterbach. Used with permission. Distributed by PennSound.