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Readings and conversations at Art International Radio, Clocktower Studio, New York, November 11, 2009

  1. Program One:Vienna Paradox reading
    Perloff  reads from her memoir Vienna Paradox (New Directions, 2004) about growing up in Vienna, and her subsequent move, just before the holocaust, to Riverdale. 
    Complete Program (26:49): MP3

  2. Program Two: Conversation with Charles Bernstein
    Perloff talks about Vienna Paradox, the influence of her experience as a refugee on her literary criticism, her perspective on being a second-language writer of English, the unknown 1950s, her graduate school days with the Christian Brothers at Catholic University of America, irony and Jewish identity, the importance of Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the pernicious influence of Martin Heidegger on postwar thought. 
    Complete Program (27:21): MP3

  3. Program Three: Conversation with Charles Bernstein
    Perloff talks about a set of schisms that seem to divide 20th century poetry: Yeats versus Futurism; Robert Lowell versus Frank O’Hara; and Wallace Stevens versus Ezra Pound. She reflects on the ongoing legacies of radical modernism for contemporary poetry.
    Complete Program (29:27): MP3
  4. Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for Art International Radio
    Studio Engineer: Jeannie Hooper:
    © 2009 Marjorie Perloff and Charles Bernstein



Lecture as a Kelly Writers House Fellow, Philadelphia, April 25, 2011

  1. introduction by Al Filreis (7:26): MP3
  2. introduction by Marjorie Perloff (2:11): MP3
  3. complete lecture on Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (1:01:22): MP3
  4. Q & A (16:35): MP3
  • complete recording (1:31:02): MP3

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Interview/Discussion as a Kelly Writers House Fellow, Philadelphia, April 26, 2011

  • complete recording (1:14:42): MP3

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