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Tom Mandel, Studio 111 Session, Recorded June 4, 2008

  1. A Garment (by Abraham ibn Ezra) (1:09): MP3
  2. Gravity and Grace (3:28): MP3
  3. To Music (From Memory) (4:23): MP3
  4. No Takers (6:34): MP3
  5. Ut Pictura Poesis (5:36): MP3
  6. Communication Through Hints (7:25): MP3
  7. 1902 (1:50): MP3
  8. Spoken Quotation (0:56): MP3
  9. Xmas '73 (0:34): MP3
  10. Twenty Years War (0:57): MP3
  11. Only the Sun (0:18): MP3
  12. Biography (1:16): MP3
  13. Filmic (0:33): MP3
  14. Mandel discusses "Ramah" (0:46): MP3
  15. A Revealed Pattern (0:57): MP3
  16. Fire of Wandering (0:47): MP3
  17. Communication Through Hints (1:02): MP3
  18. Ben Siran (0:28): MP3
  19. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (1:33): MP3
  20. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics III (1:01): MP3
  21. Ancestral Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (4:26): MP3
  22. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics: Marginalia (3:14): MP3
  23. Mandel discusses To the Cognoscenti (0:52): MP3
  24. from "To the Cognoscenti" (2:16): MP3
  25. "Persepolis and other hot spots . . ." (0:47): MP3
  26. "He has let slip . . ." (3:22): MP3
  27. "Blade along incline . . ." (3:34): MP3
  28. Part X: "Later the narrator finds himself . . ." (1:08): MP3
  29. Part XII: "Introduction" (1:48): MP3
  30. The Cave (13:35): MP3

    31. Studio 111 Session Produced by Michael S. Hennessey

From A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008

"Entitlement & Doubt (Postcards & Procrastination)" (11:41): MP3

(click for photos of the postcard [front & back] and envelope Mandel discusses in his talk)

PoemTalk #15: Lyn Henjinian, "constant change figures" with Al Filreis, Bob Perelman and Tom Devaney

Complete Dicussion (26:27): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 20, 2004

  1. Introduction (5:00): MP3
  2. Education of the Poet, an Autobiography (11:13): MP3
  3. Day (1:35): MP3
  4. Rust on a New Penny (3:38): MP3
  5. Standards of Compression (9:27): MP3
  6. Temptation Roofing (7:49): MP3
  7. Absence Sensorium (2:35): MP3

    8. Complete Reading (41:17): MP3

From PhillyTalks Episode #5, March 5, 1998

  1. Untitled (2:16): MP3
  2. Untitled (5:52): MP3
  3. Untitled (1:42): MP3
  4. Untitled (0:50): MP3
  5. Fire of Wandering (0:50): MP3
  6. Untitled (6:34): MP3

    Complete Program (also featuring Ammiel Alcalay) (1:38:18): MP3
    A transcript of the complete program (in PDF format) is available here

Talk on Spinoza: Philosophy and Poetry. June 24, 1979

  • Part One (46:44): MP3
  • Part Two (46:52): MP3
  • Part Three (11:51): MP3
    • (Question at beginning cut off due to poor sound quality)

    Above Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman

Also on PennSound:

Alan Berheimer's Particle Arms (1982), which featured Mandel as a performer.

Tom Mandel on PennSound Daily


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