Philip Whalen

reading at the Vancouver Poetry Festival, University of British Columbia, July 31, 1963

1. To the Muse (2:22): MP3
2. To the Moon (0:20) MP3
3. Dream & Excursus, Arlington Massachusetts (2:34): MP3
4. The Daydream (0:43): MP3
5. One of My Favorite Songs is Stormy Weather (1:11): MP3
6. What I Want (0:40): MP3
7. Statement of Condition (0:58): MP3
8. Early Autumn in Upper Noe Valley (1:20): MP3
9. How Beautiful (0:44): MP3
10. Daily Bread (0:48): MP3
11. Life and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them Both (7:38): MP3
12. Friday Already Half- (2:16): MP3
13. Tennis Shoes (1:38): MP3
14. Invocation and Theophany (2:50): MP3
15. Letter to Michael McClure (4:17): MP3
16. "A Wednesday Morning" (0:38): MP3
17. Plums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral Ode (5:07): MP3
18. Saturday Morning (0:40): MP3
19. The Treasures of Rage (0:50): MP3
20. The Idol (0:49): MP3
21. Warnings, Responses, Etc. (2:51): MP3
22. An Irregular Ode (0:35): MP3
23. Song for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & Market (0:35): MP3
24. The Art of Literature (3:30) MP3
25. "This Boy At Princeton Studied Russian" (4:51): MP3
26. To a Poet (0:13): MP3
27. A Vision of the Bodhisattvas (0:56): MP3
28. To the Muse (1:08): MP3
29. "The Self-Indulgence Poem" (11:26): MP3

complete reading (1:12:45): MP3


This recording was originally made available to the Slought Foundation by Fred Wah.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 Whalen Estate.

reading in San Francisco, August, 1971

Scenes of Life at the Capital (45:06): MP3
Please note: the end of the recording is cut off

(this recording courtesy of the estate of Robert Creeley)

reading "By and Large", Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1987

part one (31:48): MP3
part two (30:14) MP3


These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to Philip Whalen © 2004-2007. Used with permission of the Literary Estate of Philip Whalen. Distributed by PennSound.