Elizabeth Willis

photo © 2007 by Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening Reading and Conversation at Art Radio WPS1
with Charles Bernstein, recorded March 17, 2008

Conversation (27:17): MP3

Reading (26:30): MP3
The Human Abstract
Sonnet
Poems from Meteoric Flowers:
    The Similitude of this Great Flower
    Sympathetic Inks
    A Description of the Poison Tree
    Glittering Shafts of War
    Verses Omitted
    On the Resemblance of Some Flowers to Insects
    The Principle Catastrophe
    Her Bright Career
    Verses Omitted by Mistake
    Pictures Connected by a Slight Festoon of Ribbons
    Viewless Floods of Heat
Address
The Oldest Garden in the World
Nocturne

Close Listening Engineer: Jeannie Hooper

At SUNY-Buffalo, April 9, 2003
Reading from Turneresque

Full Reading (26:40)
1. Introduction (4:16)
2. Autographeme (2:15)
3. The Tree of Personal Effort (2:03)
4. Catalogue Raisonné (1:06)
5. The Heart of Another Is a Dark Forest (1:01)
6. Little Journeys (1:27)
7. Three Apples, Two Chestnuts, Bowl, and Silver Goblet; Or, the Silver Goblet (1:14)
8. Thunder Road (0:51)
9. Clash By Night (0:44)
10. The Wolfman (0:35)
11. On Dangerous Ground (0:53)
12. The Wild Bunch (0:31)
13. Kiss Me Deadly (0:38)
14. September 9 (0:29)
15. from "Elegy" (1:26)
16. from "Drive" (6:09)


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, April 26, 2008
Complete Reading (28:37): MP3



from State of the Union: a Poetry Reading, at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 30, 2008
complete reading (7:49): MP3


Elizabeth Willis on PennSound Daily

• April 22, 2008: "Close Listening, Reading, and Conversation with Elizabeth Willis"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author.Close Listening ©2008 Charles Bernstein and Elizabeth Willis. Other recordings © 2004-2008 Elizabeth Willis. Used with permission of Elizabeth Willis. Distributed by PennSound.