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PoemTalk Podcast #5, discussing Berrigan's "3 Pages," April 3, 2008
Listen to the complete recording.
Last reading, St. Clement's, NYC, possibly April 18, 1983
Courtesy of Simon Pettet.
- Side A (32:02): MP3
- Includes comments on "So Going around Cities", etc. reading "Whitman in Black", commenting "I like to think of myself as a formalist", reading "Last Poem", "With Daring and Strength", "A Certain Slant of Sunlight", "Give Them Back Who Never Were", then reading from "Postcard Poems", "Providence", "Let No Willful Fate…", "Down on Mission", "Natchez", "Space", "A City Winter", "To Sing the Song Fantastic", "Tough Cookies", and "For Jacques Roubaud",
- Side B (19:09): MP3
- Includes "Dice Riders", "Windshield", "Warrior", "My Autobiography", "Blue Galahad", "In Your Fuckin’ Utopia", "The School Windows Song" (after Vachel Lindsay), "Ass-face", "Turk", "Creature", "Tompkins Square Park", and "Frances", before the recording cuts off, as well as "Heroin", "Buddha-ho" (word cut off midway), "Song, Prose, & Poetry", and "Hall of Mirrors"
Ted Berrigan comments extensively both before and after reading.
Reading at Bard College, December 15, 1982
- Introduction (0:52): MP3
- discussing his writing (15:09): MP3
- A City Winter (0:13): MP3
- A Certain Slant of Sunlight (1:29): MP3
- Give Them Back, Who Never Were (4:02): MP3
- Now that I (0:34): MP3
- Okay. First. ... (1:38): MP3
- Every day back & forth (1:07): MP3
- Turk (0:56): MP3
- Let No Willful Fate Misunderstand (2:01): MP3
- Warrior, Warrior (1:22): MP3
- To Sing the Song, That Is Fantastic (1:39): MP3
- In Your Fucking Utopias (4:26): MP3
- XIII (2:08): MP3
- The School Windows Song (3:22): MP3
- Without Scruple (2:07): MP3
- Ass-face (0:29): MP3
- Natchez (2:01): MP3
- Space (3:31): MP3
- To Book-Keepers (3:58): MP3
- Stars & Stripes Forever (0:38): MP3
- Down on Mission (0:44): MP3
- Dice Riders (0:39): MP3
- The Way It Was in Wheeling (0:58): MP3
- Sleeping Alone (2:54): MP3
- Blue Galahad (0:52): MP3
- Sweet Iris (3:54): MP3
- Creature (1:43): MP3
- Providence (3:29): MP3
- Wantonness (1:53): MP3
- You'll do good if you play it like you're (1:30): MP3
- Pillow Talk (1:35): MP3
- Interstices (1:27): MP3
- To Be Serious (2:07): MP3
- Mutiny (1:49): MP3
- Ode (0:48): MP3
- Poets Tribute to Philip Guston (0:44): MP3
- The Who's Last Tour (1:17): MP3
- Red Shift (2:11): MP3
Complete reading (1:25:37): MP3
Reading from "500 American Postcards", October 1982
Part of "The Poetry Project". Original tape labled "JF. Mark's".
Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.
Complete recording (43:01): MP3
- Red Shift (3:01): MP3
- Recorded July 25, 1982, at the Naropa Institute
Reading, c. 1982
Courtesy of Simon Pettet.
- Complete recording (46:13): MP3
- Includes Berrigan commenting "I’m going to read you 500 poems but they’re all very recent just to show you what you can do", reading "Yeah tho’ I walk...", "Caesar" (after Catullus), "With Daring and Strength", "Coffee And", "Salutation", "Winged Pessary", "Do You Know Rene", "Paris Frances", "The By-Laws", collaborations with lines from Alice Notley and others, "When I was Alive", "Beautifulness", "Eye of the Beholder", "Bardolino", "The Sentiment", "The Sailor & the Samaon Schoolgirl", "Motto of the Whores and Poets Guild", "The Way It Was", "Delusions of the Insane" (alt. version), "A Mind…The Highest Question", "Homage to Keith G", "WCW Poem", "Clear by Grandma", "Little Travelog", "Dinner at George & Schneeman’s" with Steve Carey, "Four Metaphysical Poems", "Who Was Sylvia?", "War and Peace", "In the Land of pygmies and Giants", with Greg Masters, "Edtude for Ten Thumbs", "Poets Tribute to Philip Guston", "Christmas Card", "Via Air", "People Who Changed Their Names", commenting "All us poets are interested in is craft", reading "Whoa Back Buck and Gee by Land", "That Poem George Found", "A Certain Slant of Sunlight", "Another New Old Song", and last poem
The Sonnets, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, June 24, 1981
Introduction (9:28): MP3
- Sonnet 1 (0:39): MP3
- Sonnet 2 (0:43): MP3
- Sonnet 3 (0:45): MP3
- Sonnet 4 (0:44): MP3
- Sonnet 5 (0:45): MP3
- Sonnet 6 (2:06): MP3
- Poem in the Traditional Manner (1:42): MP3
- Poem in the Modern Manner (1:32): MP3
- From a Secret Journal (1:15): MP3
- Sonnet 10 (1:40): MP3
- Sonnet 11 (0:42): MP3
- Penn Station (0:56): MP3
- Sonnet 13 (0:37): MP3
- Sonnet 15 (1:37): MP3
- Sonnet 16 (0:47): MP3
- Sonnet 17 (0:42): MP3
- Sonnet 18 (0:48): MP3
- Sonnet 19 (0:53): MP3
- Sonnet 21 (0:42): MP3
- Sonnet 23 (1:18): MP3
- Sonnet 26 (1:51): MP3
- Sonnet 27 (0:55): MP3
- Sonnet 30 (0:44): MP3
- Sonnet 31 (0:44): MP3
- Sonnet 32 (0:51): MP3
- Sonnet 34 (1:15): MP3
- Sonnet 36 (1:34): MP3
- Sonnet 37 (0:57): MP3
- Sonnet 38 (0:49): MP3
- Mess Occupations (1:29): MP3
- Sonnet 40 (1:33): MP3
- Sonnet 41 (0:41): MP3
- Sonnet 42 (0:54): MP3
- Sonnet 43 (0:43): MP3
- Sonnet 44 (1:01): MP3
- Sonnet 45 (0:44): MP3
- Sonnet 46 (0:43): MP3
- Sonnet 47 (1:16): MP3
- Sonnet 48 (0:52): MP3
- Sonnet 49 (0:49): MP3
- Sonnet 50 (1:24): MP3
- Sonnet 51 (0:51): MP3
- Sonnet 52 (0:35): MP3
- Sonnet 53 (0:53): MP3
- Sonnet 54 (0:56): MP3
- Sonnet 55 (0:58): MP3
- Sonnet 56 (0:45): MP3
- Sonnet 57 (0:39): MP3
- Sonnet 58 (0:55): MP3
- Sonnet 59 (0:41): MP3
- Sonnet 60 (0:43): MP3
- Sonnet 61 (0:52): MP3
- Sonnet 62 (0:44): MP3
- Sonnet 70 (1:21): MP3
- Sonnet 71 (1:04): MP3
- Sonnet 72 (2:00): MP3
- Sonnet 73 (1:21): MP3
- Sonnet 74 (1:12): MP3
- Sonnet 75 (0:49): MP3
- Sonnet 76 (1:15): MP3
- Sonnet 77 (0:59): MP3
- Sonnet 78 (1:24): MP3
- Sonnet 81 (0:53): MP3
- Sonnet 82 (1:20): MP3
- Sonnet 83 (1:59): MP3
- Sonnet 84 (1:06): MP3
- Sonnet 85 (0:54): MP3
- Sonnet 87 (0:55): MP3
- Sonnet 88 (0:55): MP3
- Complete Reading with introduction (1:22:42): MP3
- Complete Reading without introduction (1:13:14): MP3
Higher quality version courtesy of Simon Pettet:
- Part 1 (46:50): MP3
- Part 2 (38:52): MP3
Recording introduced by Kush.
These selections are available in the following publications:
- The Sonnets. New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1964.
- The Sonnets. 2nd Edition: New York: Grove Press, 1966.
- The Sonnets. 3rd Edition: New York: United Artists, 1982.
- The Sonnets. Introduction by Alice Notley & Footnotes
by Ted Berrigan & Alice Notley, with seven sonnets restored, New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
Reading at the Naropa Institute, June 1980
- Complete Reading (30:14): MP3
Ted Berrigan and Allen Ginsberg in conversation with students, Norman, OK, April 23, 1980
- Side A (47:48): MP3
- Side B (47:35): MP3
Via Allen Ginsberg.
Courtesy of Simon Pettet.
Reading, February 1980
Courtesy of Simon Pettet.
- Complete recording (46:13): MP3
- Includes Ted Berrigan’s introduction and comments, "Cranston Near the City Line", "Wind", then three from "Easter Monday", "Chicago Morning", "Newtown" and "The End", then "From a List of the Delusions of the Insane", commenting "I just do what it is I do", remarks on Cubist painting and technique, commenting "I have great theories. I can’t entirely remember what they are. I like rhyme a lot. I love the old-fashioned music. I’m strictly a formalist", reading "Personal Poem #9", "Crystal", commenting "The summation of my entire life and career!", reading "Ten Things I Do Every Day" (for Jack Collom), "Remembered Poem", discussion on Ron Padgett’s Anthology of New York Poets (ordered by weight!), "Conversations (Wesley Jackson)", "She", "I Used to Be but Now I Am", "In the Wheel", "So Long Jimi, Janis", introductory comments on "Biographica Literaria", "Tom Clark" (after John Clare!), "Frank O’Hara", "Scorpio", and from elsewhere, "Words for Love", "Personal Poem #7", "Personal Poem #9", and "Ten Things I Do Every Day"
Reading with Chip Delany at West End Bar, 1980
Courtesy of Simon Pettet.
- Side A (31:30): MP3
- Includes Ted Berrigan introducing Samuel R. Delany, 1980
- Side B (31:34): MP3
- Includes Ted Berrigan at West End Bar, introduced by Anne Waldman, c. 1980
Reading at the Naropa Institute, August 1979
- Complete Reading (36:55): MP3
Two Readings: March 5, 1975 and April 25, 1979
- Comments (0:28): MP3
- Whitman In Black (1:09): MP3
- Buddha on the Bounty (1:28): MP3
- Here I Live (2:00): MP3
- Comments (10:39): MP3
- Chicago Morning (1:53): MP3
- New Town (1:09): MP3
- The End (1:20): MP3
- From a List of Delusions of the Insane (What They are Afraid Of) (1:10): MP3
- Comments (9:14): MP3
- Personal Poem #9 (1:15): MP3
- Crystal (1:43): MP3
- Comments (1:50): MP3
- Three Pages (0:44): MP3
- Remembered Poem (0:25): MP3
Full Interview and Reading (36:33): MP3
Reading The Sonnets, New York City, December 10, 1978
Art gallery/space in the area of First Avenue near Houston. Organized by Jim Brodey
- intro by Ron Padgett and Rochelle Kraut singing (14:09): MP3
- complete reading (bad audio from about 11:00-30:00) (1:17:51): MP3
This recording is from the collection of Robert Creeley
Ted Berrigan reads from and comments on Easter Monday, included in his Collected Poems, 1978, Location Unknown
- Side A (30:45): MP3
- Includes Ted Berrigan introducing Easter Monday (striving for "an impressionism of words"), reading "Chicago Morning", "Newton", "The End", "Method Action", "Swinburne and Watts-Dutton", "Soviet Souvenir", "Old-Fashioned Air", "The Ancient Art of Wooing", "Late November", "At Loma Linda", and "L.G.G.T.T.H."
- Side B (30:33): MP3
- Includes Ted Berrigan reading stanza from "Peking", then "Chicago English Afternoon", "She" (not to be confused with She, a girl), "Innocents Abroad", "Sister Moon", "An Orange Clock", "Gainsborough", "Easter Monday", "Four Gates to the City", "In Blood", "The Joke and the Stars", "Where the Ceiling Light Burns", "So Going around Cities", "Quarter to Three", "Picnic" (with Addenda), as well as, from elsewhere, brief comments on "Biographica Literaria"
Courtesy of Simon Pettet.
From The World Record:
Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
- Things to Do in New York City (0:48): MP3
- Landscape with Figures (Southampton) (0:40): MP3
- Frank O'Hara (1:17): MP3
Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Harris Schiff, August 4, 1977
- Introduction (0:35): MP3
- Boulder (1:08): MP3
- A Little American Feedback (1:09): MP3
- Picnic (1:07): MP3
- Carrying a Torch (1:09): MP3
- A Note from Yang-Kuan (1:09): MP3
- Work Postures (0:50): MP3
- A Meeting at the Bridge (1:34): MP3
- In 4 Parts (0:55): MP3
- Erasable Picabia (1:55): MP3
- From A List of the Delusions of the Insane, What They Are Afraid Of (0:40): MP3
- Late November (0:44): MP3
- Complete Recording (27:36): MP3
Ted Berrigan reading, likely home recording, 1974, Location Unknown
- Side A (31:37): MP3
- Side B (31:28): MP3
Includes Berrigan reading "Service at Upway", commenting "I have only one work and I hardly know what it is", reading from correspondence ("alive and well", "I’m living in Battersea, July 1973"), "Chicago Morning", "Newton", "The End", "Sandy’s Sunday Best", "He", "She", "Communism" (referred to as "a radical work of mine"), "Red Air", sharing an "improvisational…collaborative tape" of Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading "Memorial Day", Berrigan reading "Ten Things about the Boston Trip", commenting "My poetry is domestic. It’s conversational, it’s concerned with rooms and streets and the household gods - that’s what i’m interested in actually. I’m also interested in everything else but I do what I can do", reading "Conversation ("My Name Is Wesley Jackson"), "She", "Wind", "What I’d Like for Christmas 1970", "In the Wheel" (for William Carlos Williams), "Landscape with Figures (Southampton), "Ezra Pound/A Witness", "Paul Blackburn", "Sunday Morning", and "Apologies to Val & Tom"
Courtesy of Simon Pettet
Reading at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, August 1971
- Introduction (1:15): MP3
- Wishes (2:09): MP3
- Ophelia (1:51): MP3
- Poem (for Larry Fagin) (0:13): MP3
- Things to Do In Bolinas (1:06): MP3
- Today in Ann Arbor (3:04): MP3
- People Who Died (2:27): MP3
- Three Sonnets and a Coda for Tom Clark (4:09): MP3
- What I'd Like for Christmas, 1970 (1:15): MP3
- Southampton Business (3:44): MP3
- Wrong Train (1:45): MP3
- Frank O'Hara (1:36): MP3
- Crystal (1:32): MP3
- Words for Love (3:39): MP3
- Things To Do In Providence (7:30): MP3
Complete Recording (37:21): MP3
Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, "Memorial Day," the St. Mark's Poetry Project, May 5, 1971
Complete reading (26:33): MP3
read Michael S. Hennessey's "Recovering 'Memorial Day'" on Jacket2
Reading at Buffalo with Introduction by Robert Creeley, May 6, 1968
- Introduction (Robert Creeley; cut off) (0:27): MP3
- Introduction (Berrigan) (0:37): MP3
- Words For Love (2:08): MP3
- Personal Poem #7 (0:57): MP3
- Living with Chris (2:07): MP3
- Many Happy Returns (1:46): MP3
- For You (1:04): MP3
- Things To Do In New York City (0:50): MP3
- Frank O'Hara's Question (1:30): MP3
- Resolution (0:37): MP3
- A Personal Memoir of Tulsa, Oklahoma / 1955-60 (3:11): MP3
- Long Time No See (0:38): MP3
- Que Sera Sera (0:16): MP3
- December (0:17): MP3
- Tooting My Horn On Duty (0:55): MP3
- In Four Parts (1:08): MP3
- A Man Saw a Ball of Gold (0:45): MP3
- The Groundhog (1:07): MP3
- Birches (0:24): MP3
- Poem (1:05): MP3
- Introduction to The Sonnets (1:00): MP3
- Sonnet XXXVI (1:21): MP3
- Sonnet XXXVII (0:53): MP3
- Sonnet XLVI (0:39): MP3
- Sonnet XLVIII (0:45): MP3
- Sonnet L (0:40): MP3
- Sonnet LI (0:49): MP3
- Sonnet LII (0:43): MP3
- Sonnet LIII (0:43): MP3
- Sonnet LV (0:51): MP3
- Sonnet LXX (0:56): MP3
- Sonnet LXXII (0:49): MP3
- Sonnet LXXIV (0:43): MP3
- Sonnet LXXV (0:44): MP3
- Sonnet LXXVI (1:02): MP3
- Sonnet LXXX (0:49): MP3
- Sonnet LXXXII (1:06): MP3
- Sonnet LXXXVII (0:47): MP3
- A Final Sonnet (Sonnet LXXXVIII) (1:00): MP3
Complete reading (43:30): MP3
Recording thanks to Robert Creeley.
Unknown Reading, Unknown Date
- Partial recording (4:30): MP3
Also on PennSound
Philip Whalen lecture on Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, NYC, 1989
Courtesy of Simon Pettet.
- Part 1 (47:55): MP3
- Part 2 (47:34): MP3
Miscellaneous readings
"Whitman in Black" (1:04): MP3, video on YouTube
Excerpt of Memorial Day with Anne Waldman from Alchemical
Elegy (2001) (5:00): MP3,
full video on YouTube
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material
belong to Alice Notley for the Estate of Ted Berrigan. © 2004 Alice Notley. Used with permission of Alice Notley.
Distributed by PennSound.
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