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Photo: © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Studio 111 recording session at the University of Pennsylvania, January 27, 2004

Click here for three pictures of the Studio 111 session.

A Conversation with Bob Perelman (56:31), with host Charles Bernstein and questions from Penn students:

MP3 , RealAudio

Studio 111 Reading

  1. "An Autobiography" (7:28): MP3
  2. On "An Autobiography" (0:45): MP3
  3. "The Unruly Child" (1:26): MP3
  4. On "The Unruly Child" (0:30): MP3
  5. "Let's Say" (2:06): MP3
  6. "Praise & Blame" (4:06): MP3
  7. On "Praise & Blame" (0:52): MP3
  8. "Chronic Meanings" (5:21): MP3
  9. On "Chronic Meanings" (1:22): MP3
  10. "The Manchurian Candidate" (19:28): MP3
  11. "Confession" (2:59): MP3
  12. "Revenge of the Bathwater" (4:45): MP3
  13. "The Dream of the Bed" (3:02): MP3
  14. "Here 2" (5:47): MP3

Credits: Selections 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, & 11, Ten to One: Selected Poems: (Wesleyan University Press, 1999). Copyright © 1999 by Bob Perelman.

Studio 111 Producer: Charles Bernstein
from Patrick Dillon

Literary Hoaxes, a presentation with Paul Maliszewski at the Kelly Writer's House, October 21, 2009

Complete Recording (1:11:23): MP3 / MOV

Reading from Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009

Complete Reading (13:33): MP3

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

  • "Oppen's Knowledge" (14:12): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, March 24, 2007

  1. Introduction (6:33): MP3
  2. Perelman's Introduction (1:14): MP3
  3. Here Here (8:13): MP3
  4. Perelman discusses Playing Bodies (0:50): MP3
  5. "1" from Playing Bodies (0:31): MP3
  6. "2" from Playing Bodies (0:32): MP3
  7. New Poem 1 (0:30): MP3
  8. New Poem 2 (0:37): MP3
  9. New Poem 3 (0:13): MP3
  10. Liquid Assets (3:46): MP3
  11. The Culture of Barbarism (3:21): MP3
  12. New Poem 4 (0:28): MP3
  13. New Poem 5 (0:34): MP3
  14. New Poem 6 (0:23): MP3
  15. New Poem 7 (0:27): MP3
  16. New Poem 8 (0:28): MP3
  17. New Poem 9 (0:33): MP3
  18. New Poem 10 (0:50): MP3
  19. Only One of Us is Henry James (2:30): MP3
  20. Ideal Reader (0:11): MP3
  21. Student Publication (0:15): MP3
  22. Pound's Penis (aside) (0:51): MP3
  23. Epic Proportions (0:13): MP3
  24. "The past charming itself . . ." (1:07): MP3
  25. Poetic Sex (1:04): MP3

    26. Complete Reading (37:54): MP3

Book release party in celebration of IFLIFE, January 9, 2007

  1. Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (5:16): MP3
  2. Introduction by Bob Perelman (2:38): MP3
  3. On "Against Shock and Awe" (1:22): MP3
  4. "Against Shock and Awe" (5:49)MP3
  5. on "The Revenge of the Bathwater" (0:56): MP3
  6. "The Revenge of the Bathwater" (5:51): MP3
  7. on "Or Not" (1:10)MP3
  8. "Or Not" (1:10)MP3
  9. on "The Dream of the Bed" (2:08): MP3
  10. "The Dream of the Bed" (3:18)MP3
  11. from "Iflife" (5:06): MP3
  12. from "Tanktop" (1:09): MP3
    13. Complete Recording (37:15): MP3

Holloway Series Reading with Mia You, UC Berkeley, November 29, 2006

  1. Introduction and Reading by Mia You (21:39): MP3
  2. Introduction Bob Perelman's Reading (2:45): MP3
  3. Selection from If Life (43:01): MP3
  4. Reading (46:15): MP3
  5. Questions (16:00): MP3

Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 11, 2006

  1. Introduction by Charles Borkhuis (3:07): MP3
  2. Iflife (including the "poems" Pleasure, Ankles, & The Past is No Place for Someone Like You) (16:09): MP3
  3. Voice Play (named sections: Only One of Us is Henry James, Ideal (): MP3
  4. Reader, Student Publication, Pound's Penis [aside], Epic Proportions, Theater of Cruelty, Husbands at Their Desks, Poetic Sex, Enemy Readers, How Much is That Poet in the Window, Faith Based Lyric, The Jack Spicer Memorial Neuron, Stein and Miss Murphy, Envoi (7:28): MP3
  5. Veiled Portrait (0:54): Veiled Portrait (0:54)
  6. Untitled Says it All (0:23): Untitled Says it All (0:23)
  7. Habits of the Ancients (0:29): Habits of the Ancients (0:29)
  8. Another (0:23): Another (0:23)
    9. Tank Top (sections: [opening, un-subtitled], Current Poetics, The Remote, Three Coins in a Fountain, Sunday Morning, Host, Mosul, Beating the Bushes) (11:46): MP3

Lecture on Pound at the Poets House, December 7, 2001

Segue Reading at Double Happiness NYC, February 17, 2001

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania: "Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism", October 14, 2000

  1. Introduction by Al Filreis (2:44): MP3
  2. Introductory remarks (1:59): MP3
  3. About Louis Zukofsky (14:05): MP3
  4. "Not Me" and reading from Zukofsky (6:55): MP3
  5. "Catalyst" and "Virgil's Fourth Eclogue" (20:03): MP3

Complete Recording: MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 26, 1999

  1. In a Nutshell (1:11): MP3
  2. The Avant Garde (3:34): MP3
  3. The Library: January 28 (2:36): MP3
  4. Confession (3:12): MP3
  5. Chaime Soutine (5:24): MP3
  6. The Manchurian Candidate (21:25): MP3
  7. Symmetry of Past and Future (8:42): MP3

Reading for Wednesdays @ 4Plus, University at Buffalo, October 19, 1993

Complete Reading (49:57): MP3

Segue Reading at the Ear Inn May 24, 1986

  • Complete Reading (47:13): MP3

Talk on Good and Bad/ Good and Evil, May 20, 1985

Talk on Pronouns Given at 578 Folsom as a Part of the Grand Piano Series, April 1, 1979

  • First Part (48:05): MP3
  • Second Part (48:30): MP3
  • Third Part (31:50): MP3

Talk on Style Given at 80 Langton St, San Francisco March 23, 1978

  • First Part (46:34): MP3
  • Second Part (46:47): MP3
  • Third Part (41:46): MP3

PoemTalk #16: Robert Creeley, "I Know A Man" with Al Filreis, Randall Couch, Jessica Lowenthal

  • Discussion (25:32): MP3

PoemTalk #15: Lyn Hejinian, "constant change figures" with Al Filreis, Tom Devaney and Tom Mandel

    Discussion (26:27): MP3

Talk Given at Intersection, San Francisco

Perelman discusses L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics, Literary History
  • First Part (53:39): MP3
  • Second Part (52:32): MP3


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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004 Bob Perelman. Studio 111 conversation © 2004 Bob Perelman/Charles Bernstein. Used with permission of Bob Perelman. Distributed by PennSound.