Douglas Messerli

Close Listening with Charles Bernstein

Program 1 — Complete Reading (27:57): MP3

1. "Dinner on the Lawn" (1:22) : MP3
2. "Chairs for Everyone" (1:38) : MP3
3. "This that & then" (0:28) : MP3
4. "Life at the Pleiades" (0:36) : MP3
5. "Actually Swallowed" (0:49) : MP3
6. "Harrowing" (0:34) : MP3
7. "Causes of the Crack Up" (0:36) : MP3
8. "An Essay on Concrete" (1:04) : MP3
9. "Going to Sea" (1:21) : MP3
10. "On the Line" (0:35) : MP3
11. "From Hear to Air" (1:02) : MP3
12. "Scared Cows" (0:57) : MP3
13. "Summer" (0:52) : MP3
14. "Aller et Retour" (0:28) : MP3
15. "Narrativity" (1:30) : MP3
16. "Air/Error: A Dialogue" (2:09) : MP3
17. "August" (0:41) : MP3
18. "Ground" (0:59) : MP3
19. "Suppositions" (1:15) : MP3
20. "Storm" (2:08) : MP3
21. "I've Been" (1:19) : MP3
22. "The World" (1:46) : MP3
23. "Space (2) : MP3" (0:46) : MP3
24. "West" (1:08) : MP3

Program 3 — Reading & Interview (26:54): MP3

Heavy Sonnets:

1. "The Aim" (0:28) : MP3
2. "The Supposition" (0:31) : MP3
3. "The Illusion" (0:25) : MP3
4. "The Preparation" (0:30) : MP3
5. "Flying Dutchman" (1:03) : MP3
6. "March Streams Exist, If Streams Exist" (2:09) : MP3
7. "The Secret Saint" (2:12) : MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

1. First Words (3:20): MP3
2. Aesthetics (0:41): MP3
3. Never Having to Been Where the Sun Rose (1:18): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, February 15, 1995

• introduction (4:43): MP3
• Complete Reading (36:09): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, December 9, 1995

• Complete Reading (45:44): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, January 18, 1992

• Complete Reading (24:15): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, September 29, 1990

• complete recording (27:18): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, January 11, 1985

• Complete Reading (31:36): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Ear Inn, March 17, 1979

1. "Dialogue of the Two Great Systems" (collaboration with Marianne Glass) (3:10) : MP3
   
2. Epigram by Gertrude Stein (0:16) : MP3
   
3. "I'd to Me" (with multiple voices, probably Diane Ward and Charles Bernstein) (1:20) : MP3
   
4. Untitled ("The initial process to speak in...") (0:54) : MP3
   
5. Untitled ("That the word take convincing...") (0:42) : MP3
   
6. Untitled ("Is to know to put...") (0:52) : MP3
   
7. "To M" (0:48) : MP3
   
8. "The Tides" (2:26) : MP3
   
9. "Overture" (0:55) : MP3
   
10. "Dinner on the Lawn" (1:34) : MP3
    
11. "The Bride" (1:00) : MP3
    
12. "Nervousness" (0:36) : MP3
    
13. "Akimbo" (0:32) : MP3
    
14. "Worm" (0:36) : MP3
    
15. "Solstice" (0:32) : MP3
    
16. "Leaving the House" (0:55) : MP3
    
17. "The Villainy of Claire Boothe Luce" (1:45) : MP3
    
18. "Encore" (0:56) : MP3
    
19. "Ah Fragonard" (1:18) : MP3
    
20. "Space" (0:43) : MP3
21. "Poem" (1:04) : MP3

Complete Reading (22:41): MP3

Special thanks to Danny Snelson for his help in segmenting this reading.

Douglas Messerli on PennSound Daily

• March 7, 2008: "Douglas Messerli on Close Listening"
• December 4, 2007: "Douglas Messerli: 1979 Segue Series Reading"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. Close Listening © 2008 by Charles Bernstein and Douglas Messerli. Other material ©2007 by Douglas Messerli. Used with permission of Douglas Messerli. Distributed by PennSound.