David Rattray

Reading at Granary Books, New York, February 20, 1992

• with Luc Sante
• David Rattray (from Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte [Barrytown/Station Hill, 1996]) (40:02): MP3


• Introduction to the poetry of Gilbert-Lecomte (4:10): MP3
• Anti-sun (Anti-soleil) (2:38): MP3
• What a Howling Shame (0:46): MP3
• Coronation and Massacre of Love (9:24): MP3
• A Sagacious But Unprofitable Observation (1:04): MP3
• Shampoo (0:36): MP3
• Cartesian Diver (2:04): MP3
• Dirty Poetry (Poesie Impure) (0:35): MP3
• Wink (0:38): MP3
• Vacancy and Glass (1:24): MP3
• Wise Old Saying of the Dead World (0:29): MP3
• I'm Not Scared of Wind (6:41): MP3
• Wind Fire (0:45): MP3
• The Mystic Egg (1:21): MP3
• I Want to be Damned (or Where the Prophet Stopped) (1:38): MP3
• Testament (1:30): MP3
• Post-Reading Remarks (2:41): MP3

Reading at Mona's, East Village, NYC, December 16, 1990

• Complete reading (from Opening the Eyelid [Diwan, 1990]) (38:24): MP3

1. Introduction (1:07): MP3
2. Ming I (1:43): MP3
3. To The Blue Wall (12:18): MP3
4. From The Stars (0:55): MP3
5. Opening The Eyelid (6:03): MP3
6. Anaximander (2:33): MP3
7. The Holy Ghost (7:07): MP3
8. The Curve (0:59): MP3

• Complete reading (34:03): MP3

1. Introduction (7:52): MP3
2. The Spirit of St. Louis (12:35): MP3
3. To Get A Nice Quiet Buzz On (1:05): MP3
4. Shampoo (1:37): MP3
5. Bud Juice (1:52): MP3
6. Off The Roof (1:05): MP3
7. The Skull (6:01): MP3
8. West From Napeague (6:17): MP3
9. The Dark (1:18): MP3

• with Michael O'Brien
• David Rattray (40:10): MP3

1. Introduction (7:01): MP3
2. Preface to Gilbert-Lecomte (15:32): MP3
3. The South Pole (1:00): MP3
4. I'm Not Scared of Wind (5:54): MP3
5. Wind After Wind Before (2:22): MP3
6. The Black Ball (0:47): MP3
7. A Sagacious But Unprofitable Observation (0:41): MP3
8. Shampoo (0:40): MP3
9. Horror Show Puppet Show (1:07): MP3
10. Son of Bone Talks (1:50): MP3
11. Cartesian Diver (1:34): MP3
12. The Mystic Egg (1:08): MP3
13. Coronation and Massacre of Love (2:56): MP3

• Complete reading (42:38): MP3

• with Martha King

1. Introduction (4:50): MP3
2. From "Are You Crazy" (36:01): MP3

• Complete Reading (41:14): MP3

Reading as part of the Ear Inn Series, NYC, November 26, 1984

1. Introduction (4:05): MP3
2. A Red-Framed Print of the Summer Palace (1:13): MP3
3. First Human (2:42): MP3
4. Out of the Ground (1:43): MP3
5. Graffiti Kids Do Think (1:56): MP3
6. They Don't Have To Have That Look (1:35): MP3
7. Feast Season (0:45): MP3
8. Summer (0:38): MP3
9. Relieved (1:04): MP3
10. The Sweetmeat (1:06): MP3
11. Nearing Mount Adams (1:57): MP3
12. Better Than a Glass of Water (1:19): MP3
13. To Garrett Weinsing (0:53): MP3
14. One Morning (1:46): MP3
15. Pale Tomboy (0:30): MP3
16. Red Wings (1:20): MP3
17. Alone, Daybreak, June 25 (2:23): MP3
18. Cockenoe (2:32): MP3

• David Rattray (29:59): MP3

• David Rattray's "Weekend with Ezra Pound" (The Nation, Nov. 16, 1957) quoted in "The Sound of Pound: A Listener’s Guide" by Richard Sieburth (Published April 2007 in conjunction with PennSound's Ezra Pound Page)

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