Poems for the Millennium

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
September 28, 1998

1. Introduction by Al Filreis (11:30)
2. Aime Cesaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, read by Rothenberg (0:19)
3. Paul Celan, Threadsuns, read by Joris (0:18)
4. Robert Duncan, Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow, read by Rothenberg (1:15)
5. Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness, read by Joris (1:06)
6. John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, read by Rothenberg (2:10)
7. Guy Debord, All the King's Men, read by Joris (1:17)
8. Marie Louise Kaschnitz, Who Would Have Thought It, read by Rothenberg (1:49)
9. Adonis, Preface to the Pages of Night and Day, read by Joris (1:17)
10. Alice Notley, Desamere, read by Rothenberg (2:15)
11. Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, read by Joris (1:01)
12. Fujii Sadakazu, Where is Japanese Poetry, read by Rothenberg (2:31)
13. Diane DiPrima, Rant, read by Joris (1:59)
14. Andrei Voznesensky, Back into the Future, read by Rothenberg (0:25)
15. Ted Berrigan, People of the Future, read by Joris (0:15)
16. T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, read by Blau DuPlessis (3:11)
17. Jackson MacLow, The Pronouns, read by Perelman (1:09)
18. George Oppen, Myth of the Blaze, read by Blau DuPlessis (2:27)
19. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Aller, read by Perelman (3:20)
20. William Carlos Williams, Spring and All, read by Blau DuPlessis (1:49)
21. Inger Christensen, Alphabet, read by Joris (3:37)
22. Maria Sabina, The Midnight Velada, read by Rothenberg (4:13)
23. Rothenberg's Lorca Variations read by the author (3:30)
24. Rothenberg's Three Paris Elegies read by the author (7:40)
25. Rothenberg's Night Poems for Jackson MacLow read by the author (8:45)
26. Joris' Winnetou Old read by the author (7:05)
27. Joris' Deja Vu All Over Again read by the author (1:41)
28. Joris' Obit for Paz read by the author (1:21)
29. Joris' Ode or Nearly Here read by the author (3:09)
30. Joris' In the Nomad House read by the author (0:16)
31. Joris' Notes Toward a Nomadic Community (0:53)
32. Joris' Return to Kairouan read by the author (1:26)
33. Joris' Untitled (0:23)
34. Joris' Seesaw (0:29)

Also of interest:
Other Jerome Rothenberg PennSound recordings
Other Pierre Joris PennSound recordings

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All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors. © 1998 Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Pierre Joris, Bob Perelman, and Jerome Rothenberg. Used with the permission of Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg. Distributed by PennSound.