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Keith Waldrop
Photo © 2009 Charles Bernstein/PennSound
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Art International Radio, operating at ARTonAIR.org, November 5, 2009
Program 1: Full Reading of Selected Poems
1. Introduction (0:54): MP3
from A Windmill Near Calvary (1968)
2. Conversion (2:10): MP3
from Windfall Losses (1977)
3. To Rosmarie in Bad Kissingen (2:05): MP3
from The Garden of Effort (1975)
4. A Hatful of Flood (7:35): MP3
from The Ruins of Providence (1983)
5. The Ruins of Providence (1:30): MP3
from A Ceremony Somewhere Else (1984)
6. How to Tell Distances (2:24): MP3
from Hegel's Family (1989)
7. Six Further Studies (5:27): MP3
from The Locality Principle (1995)
8. Indefinite Inscriptions (0:47): MP3
9. Theme (0:17): MP3
from The House Seen From Nowhere (2002)
10. Whether in the Body (1:18): MP3
Complete Recording (25:51): MP3
Program 2: Conversation with Charles Bernstein (30:13): MP3
- Introduction (0:59): MP3
- on his earliest experiences with poetry (2:46): MP3
- on how Christianity figures into his work (3:47): MP3
- on going into the army (1:20): MP3
- on the fictional memoir (1:27): MP3
- on his literary affiliations and affinities (6:52): MP3
- on The Locality Principle (2:36): MP3
- on his interest in collage (7:51): MP3
- on his translations (2:02): MP3
Transcript of conversation at Jacket2
- Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (3:48): MP3
- Sarah Dowling Introduces Rosmarie Waldrop (2:58): MP3
- Rosemarie Waldrop: Lawn of Excluded Middle (from Curves to the Apple) (7:57): MP3
- Rosemarie Waldrop: Time Ravel (7:54): MP3
- Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop read "Light Travels" (4:22): MP3
- Sarah Dowling Introduces Keith Waldrop (1:35): MP3
- Keith Waldrop Reads from The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (23:58): MP3, YouTube [excerpt]
Complete reading (52:42): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 17, 2009
Complete Reading (47:48): MP3
- from John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale (5:58): MP3
- from Charles Baudelaire, To the Reader (3:35): MP3
- from Charles Baudelaire, The Bad Glazier (7:17): MP3
- from Charles Baudelaire, The Dog and the Flask (1:26): MP3
- from Charles Baudelaire, Invitation to the Voyage (7:38): MP3
Complete reading (1:59:24): MP3, MOV
Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001
- Introduction (1:37): MP3
- Island Fire by John Hawkes (2:13): MP3
- introduction to Elegy (0:59): MP3
- Elegy I (1:47): MP3
- Elegy II (2:01): MP3
- Elegy III (3:24): MP3
- Elegy IV (2:02): MP3
- Elegy V (1:41): MP3
- Elegy VI (1:23): MP3
- Elegy VII (2:24): MP3
- Elegy VIII (2:32): MP3
Reading with Rosmarie Waldrop
- Light Travels (3:47): MP3
Reading from his translations of Charles Baudelaire' s Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan), November 23, 2006
- Benediction (4:49): MP3
- The Life Before (1:02): MP3
- Don Juan in Hell (1:35): MP3
- Giantess (1:11): MP3
- Carrion (2:45): MP3
- Posthumous Remorse (1:10): MP3
- Invitation to the Voyage (2:09): MP3
- Spleen (1:23): MP3
- Danse Macabre (4:35): MP3
- A Voyage to Cythera (4:16): MP3
- To Her Too Merry (1:47): MP3
Recorded and edited by Steve Evans.
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, December 12, 1992
- Complete recording (25:51): MP3
- Introduction (0:41): MP3
- Waldrop talking about the first section of "A House Seen from Nowhere" (0:37): MP3
- The palmer worm (1:12): MP3
- Transparent like the air (1:27): MP3
- The idle wheel (0:49): MP3
- A slightly arched form (0:35): MP3
- A higher spin (0:50): MP3
- A turning road (2:30): MP3
- Cues to distance (1:03): MP3
- Waldrop talking about the second section of "A House Seen from Nowhere" (0:31): MP3
- "A bank of cloud across the sky..." (0:39): MP3
- "Ghastly misprint..." (0:50): MP3
- "Her hair is combed back..." (1:13): MP3
- "I am not tired..." (0:30): MP3
- "imagine this as the Chinese have imagined it..." (0:40): MP3
- "I need to know..." (0:38): MP3
- "The moment I saw her..." (0:17): MP3
- "The second death..." (0:09): MP3
- "There is a kind of lizard..." (0:30): MP3
- "The unknown quantity..." (0:08): MP3
- "The web of cracks in the sidewalk..." (0:07): MP3
- "What the spirit says..." (0:10): MP3
- Waldrop talking about the third section of "A House Seen from Nowhere" (0:45): MP3
- Epigraph from "The Tale of Genji" (0:11): MP3
- A House Seen from Nowhere: Part 3 (7:16): MP3
Reading for the Poetry Project, April 18, 1990
- Complete reading (41:02): MP3
- Introduction (3:47): MP3
- Conversion (2:19): MP3
- To Rosemary in Bad Kissingen (2:49): MP3
- Around the block (2:00): MP3
- Progressing (1:40): MP3
- Intervals (5:27): MP3
- Water Marks (8:01): MP3
- A fantasy upon the last days of summer (3:49): MP3
- The quest for Mount Misery #10 (3:16): MP3
- Shipwreck in Haven: the sixth transcendental study (6:34): MP3
- La Notion d'Obstacle (Gallimard, 1978) (31:38): MP3
Keith Waldrop reads from his translation, The Notion of Obstacle (Windsor: Awede Press, 1978).
Note: Royet-Journoud placed a ticking clock on the podium, which can be heard in the recording.
- Les Objets Contiennent l'Infini (Gallimard, 1983), Book 3 (prose section) (2:54): MP3
Waldrop reads from his translation, Objects Contain the Infinite (Windsor VT: Awede, 1995).
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York. May 5, 1979
Complete Recording (17:46): MP3
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational
use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2007-2009
Keith Waldrop. Used with permission of Keith Waldrop. Close Listening programs © 2009 Charles Bernstein & Keith Waldrop.
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