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 from If In Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 ( New York: (Penguin, 2001):

1. Full program (27:45)
2. Typography (2:47)
3. Diorama of the Uninhabited Yes (2:23)
4. On (Thing) (1:02)
5. Poise on Arrow (2:06)
6. Eclipse with Object (1:19)
7. Missing Ages (4:08)
8. Arm's Way, Harm's Reach (2:55)
9. The French Girl (2:29)
10. True and False Green (0:44)
11. Quotations from Reality (1:02)

from Hum (New York: Penguin, 2005):

1. Instruction (1:02)
2. Seen, Overheard (1:27)
3. Opera (1:03)
4. Postscript (1:41)

Program Two

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

1. Introduction (2:22): MP3
2. Harmony (0:47): MP3
3. Victory (2:42): MP3
4. Precision Tuning (1:15): MP3
5. XYZ Plus Minus (2:46): MP3
6. Acrostic (Barbara Guest) (0:40): MP3
7. "Back" (2:25): MP3
8. The Book and Dream Club (1:17): MP3
9. Fragment (4:24): MP3
10. Fragment (12:34): MP3
11. complete reading (36:39): MP3

from the Live at the Ear CD

"Opening Day" from Clamor, recorded January 4, 1992 (4:38): MP3

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, New York December 4, 1999

Complete Reading (30:30): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• Lauterbach reads John Ashbery's "Litany" with the author
• Lauterbach's Essay, "What We Know as We Know It: Reading 'Litany' with J.A.", which discusses the poem and the process of recording and performing it alongside Ashbery

Ann Lauterbach on PennSound Daily

• July 17, 2008: "Ann Lauterbach: Newly Segmented Reading Plus Ashbery Essay"

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