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):

Full program (27:45)
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. Harm's Way, Arm'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):

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

Lauterbach lecture, "The Given and the Chosen,"

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

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4-Plus, University of Buffalo, October 17, 2001

• complete reading (46:39): MP3

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

1. Introduction (2:24): MP3
2. Secular Portrait of Jack Spicer (unpublished) (1:57): MP3
3. Homage to William Carlos Williams (1:41): MP3
4. Solstice (published as part of "Winter Strawberries") (0:55): MP3
5. New Brooms (2:32): MP3
6. Legacy (2:30): MP3
7. Bookmark, Horizon (Emily Dickinson) (published in Hum as "Bookmark, Horizon (Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell)") (3:20): MP3
8. Untitled (published as "Splendor")(2:02): MP3
9. Marjorie and Forrest in Moscow (published in Hum as "M. and F. at the K.G.B.")(1:45): MP3
10. Fragment Oscillating History and Magic (published as part of "Snow") (1:29): MP3
11. April.doc (unpublished) (3:31): MP3
12. September Song (4:48): MP3
13. Interleavings (Paul Celan) (1:23): MP3

• Complete Reading (30:30): MP3


• [ all poems published in the sequence, "The Call," in If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin, 2001) unless otherwise noted ]

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, April 20, 1994

Complete Reading (50:25): MP3

Reading at the Ear Inn, January 4, 1992

• complete reading (32:54): 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
• 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.