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PoemTalk Podcast #34, discussing Olson's Maximus poems, July 26, 2010
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.
Studio Recording at Black Mountain College, made by Robert Creeley c. 1954, first issued as a record
- The Songs of Maximus (3:15): MP3
- Song 1 (0:40): MP3
- Song 2 (0:23): MP3
- Song 3 (1:16): MP3
- Song 4 (0:36): MP3
- Song 5 (0:10): MP3
- Song 6 (0:06): MP3
- The Kingfishers (8:01): MP3
- The Kingfishers 1 (1:20): MP3
- The Kingfishers 2 (1:24): MP3
- The Kingfishers 3 (1:30): MP3
- The Kingfishers 4 (1:38): MP3
- The Kingfishers II (2:05): MP3
- Complete Reading (11:31): MP3
* Note that The Kingfishers III is not included (thanks to Steve Evans for listing)
Selected Letters of Robert Creeley 146 (Creeley to Duncan, September 24, 1955):
Dennie [Denise Levertove] had persuaded me to bring out a record Charles and I
made here, a year ago, to play for him [Mitch Goodman]; which we did, and
clearly he was moved, by it, i.e., he got the poems as obviously the page had
never given them to him. And spoke, then, of how it changed everything.
At San Francisco State University, 1957
From Maximus, vol. 1
- I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You [I.1] (4:01): MP3
- The Songs of Maximus [I.13-16] 3:11): MP3
- Maximus, Letter 7 (Marsden Hartley's eyes) [I:30-38] (5:44): MP3
- Maximus, Letter 10 [1:45-51] (3:39): MP3
From Maximus, vol. 2
- Letter 14 (6:11): MP3
- Letter 15 (5:12): MP3
- Maximus, The Twist (3:40): MP3
- Second Century Song (0:30): MP3
- Anecdotes of the Late War (0:43): MP3
- The Love of Anat (0:34): MP3
- The O'Ryan Poems (3:32): MP3
Christmas Tape Reading, 1957
- Track 1 (31:05): MP3
- Track 2 (4:42): MP3
- Track 3 (14:33): MP3
- Track 4 (6:43): MP3
- Track 5 (5:08): MP3
- Track 6 (54:45): MP3
Complete recording (1:50:12): MP3
Richard Moore USA: Poetry Documentary with Denise Levertov, 1966
Reading in Boston, June 1962
- Maximus, to Gloucester (3:05): MP3
- So Sassafras (3:33): MP3
- Maximus, to Gloucester, Letter 27 (2:11): MP3
[TEXT]
- An Ode on Cape Ann (1:01): MP3
- from Maximus IV (1:02): MP3
- View (1:44): MP3
- Chronicles (1:43): MP3
- The Gulf of Maine (3:02): MP3
- Maximus, from Dogtown I (6:25): MP3
- Going Right Out of the Century (0:50): MP3
- Maximus, to Gloucester, Letter 15 (4:14): MP3
- A Later Note on Letter #15 (1:11): MP3
- Letter 41 (1:02): MP3
- Maximus, from Dogtown II (3:36): MP3
- The Distance (2:03): MP3
- The Librarian (2:52): MP3
- To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe's Things... (12:52) text: MP3
- In Cold Hell, In Thicket (8:12): MP3
- ABC (0:53): MP3
- Letter, May 2nd 1959 (4:13): MP3
Complete Reading (1:08:51): MP3
At Goddard College, April 12-14, 1962
Reading and lecture, April 12th: MP3 (1:55:31)
Kyle Schlesinger's transcript of the event: PDF
Discussion of Herman Melville, April 14th: MP3 (1:55:31)
These recordings were originally made available to PennSound by Kyle Schlesinger. Special thanks to Goddard College archivist Forest Davis.
At the Vancouver Poetry Festival, August 16, 1963
- Maximus, from Dogtown II [II;9-10] (4:18): MP3
- Maximus, to himself as of 'Phoenicians' [II:111] (1:14): MP3
Maximus, to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld] [II-14-15] [1:5-8] (2:14): MP3, TEXT, youtube
Maximus, further on (December 28th, 1959) [II:13] (1:11): MP3
The Poem (0:28): MP3
River #1 (1:19): MP3
River #2 (0:46): MP3
Okeanos' Dream (1:18): MP3
The South East Wind (1:20): MP3
I Tell You It's Cruel (2:34): MP3
Three Poems (1:45): MP3
Of Old Times (2:12): MP3
They said she went off (0:23): MP3
A Maximus (2:08): MP3
A coast is not the same as land (9:59): MP3
Maximus Letter Whatever (2:19): MP3
First Stevens Song (1:22): MP3
Upward Choking on Dogtown (1:17): MP3
I force the calm grey waters (1:08): MP3
By the way into the woods (0:22): MP3
The rock listens to itself (0:42): MP3
Later Tyrian Business [II:36] (1:26): MP3
For Robert Duncan Who Understands (8:48): MP3
Further Completion of Platt (3:58): MP3
Untitled (1:11): MP3
A Prayer (0:37): MP3
All having breakfast (0:59): MP3
Gee Avenue (0:25): MP3
Where is the B. Elery (0:11): MP3
Maximus Written to be a note to myself (about Stevens) (3:01): MP3
23 School and 16 Columbia (2:12): MP3
I Stand on Main St. (0:33): MP3
Letter 72 (1:46): MP3
Descartes solider in a time of religious wars (0:45): MP3
In the interleaved almanacs of 1646 (1:55): MP3
Of the Parsons (3:33): MP3
The Beginnings (5:38): MP3
Maximus at the Harbour (2:56): MP3
2nd Century Song (7:10): MP3
from "Fort Point section," Maximus II [II:83ff] (7:40): MP3
from Maximus II, final poems [II:199- 202] (5:33): MP3
The Songs of Maximus [I.13-16] (6:22): MP3
Maximus, to Himself ("I have had to learn the simplest things / last ...") [I:52-53] text (2:26): MP3
The Blue Monster (0:57): MP3
The Lordly & Isolate Satyr (8:38): MP3
Le Bonheur (2:22): MP3
The Charge (2:37): MP3
Spring (1:16): MP3
As the Dead Prey Upon Us (10:25): MP3
Kingfishers (6:31): MP3
Letter 3 ("Tansy buttons ...") [I:9-16] (8:00): MP3
Complete reading (2:45:53): MP3
These recordings were originally made available to the
Slought Foundation by Fred Wah. PennSound publication made
with thanks to Slought and with the permission of Fred Wah and
the Olson Estate.
At Gratwick's Highlands, November 16, 1963
- Tape 1 of 2 (1:37:26): MP3
- Tape 2 of 2 (1:06:57): MP3
(recording courtesy of Robert Creeley)
USA: Poetry (NET), directed by Richard Moore (excerpts), Gloucester, March 12, 1966
"Letter # 41 [broken off]" [Maximus II:1](text: sroll down) and "Maximus, to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]" [Maximus II:14-15] text: scroll down to "with a leap")
Includes "The Librarian" [Collected Poems 412-14]; video on right just the poem (text)
Audio from these videos:
"Letter # 41 [broken off]" [Maximus II:1] (1:13): MP3
"Maximus, to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]" [Maximus II:14-15] (2:44): MP3 text
"The Librarian" [Collected Poems 412-14] (3:34): MP3 text
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