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. "Monday, In the Evening" (11:26): MP3

complete reading (1:12:45): MP3

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
• part 1 (3:52): MP3
• part 2 (6:52): MP3

(these recordings courtesy of the estate of Robert Creeley)

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

Part One

1. Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis (0:43): MP3
2. Literary Life in the Golden West (1:33): MP3
3. The Winter (0:14): MP3
4. Poem (0:14): MP3
5. Self-Portrait Sad 22:IX:58 (6:02): MP3
6. Fragment of Great Beauty and Stillness (0:33): MP3
7. A Vision of the Bodhisattvas (1:01): MP3
8. To The Moon (0:18): MP3
9. Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring (0:45): MP3
10. Mahayana (0:34): MP3
11. Tara (0:49): MP3
12. Love Love Love Again (0:56): MP3
13. What Finally Happened to the King (1:16): MP3
14. A Romantic and Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life and Work (0:37): MP3
15. Synesthesia (0:09): MP3
16. "Everywhere I Wander" (0:39): MP3
17. Translation of a Lost Play by M.M (0:54): MP3
18. "A Penny for the Old Guy" (0:40): MP3
19. Card #21 Le Monde (0:24): MP3
20. A Morning Walk (1:05): MP3
21. Sourdough Mountain Lookout (8:53): MP3
22. [Awake a moment] (0:11): MP3
23. "Never Apologize; Never Explain" (0:31): MP3
24. Life at Bolinas. The Last of California (2:49): MP3
• part one (31:48): MP3
• part two (30:14) MP3

Philip Whalen on PennSound Daily

• July 24, 2009: "Philip Whalen on PennSound"
• December 17, 2008: "Two New 1971 Fragments From Philip Whalen"
• March 31, 2008: "Philip Whalen: New and Newly Segmented Readings"

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