Production, direction, and camera work by Stephen Fredman. Introduced by Henry Weinfield.
- Introduction (4:52): MP3
- Leaving Us Out (1:26): MP3
- The Mind's Landscape on an Early Winter Day (2:40): MP3
- Not Noah (0:53): MP3
- My Father Photographed with Friends (1:47): MP3
- Music That Sees Beyond the World (3:07): MP3
- How We Differ From the Earth (2:14): MP3
- Virgin and Child with Music and Numbers (3:22): MP3
- The Outer Becoming Inner (1:09): MP3
- The Smile on the Face of a Kouros (4:54): MP3
- In Contempt of Worldliness (1:22): MP3
- Of the All With Which We Coexist (2:00): MP3
- The Dream of a World of Objects (2:02): MP3
- Colloquy on a Bed (1:54): MP3
- Note from the Edge (2:00): MP3
- A Fair Face (2:51): MP3
- The Real Surrounding: On Canalleto's Venice (3:48): MP3
- You Know (1:59): MP3
- The Minds Limitations Are Its Freedom (1:35): MP3
- The Ignorant Lust After Knowledge (1:41): MP3
- Morning Greetings Exchanged (1:18): MP3
- Love Is A Great Power (1:39): MP3
- Dosie-Do (1:21): MP3
- His Poems (1:34): MP3
- The Fiction of Shape (1:48): MP3
- Here Is A Silence (1:16): MP3
- Utterances (1:43): MP3
- The Limits of Knowledge (0:57): MP3
- In Defense of Poesy (1:02): MP3
- The Lover As Not The Loved (0:47): MP3
- Where It Ends (1:10): MP3
- The Touch (0:58): MP3
- For Any Speakers (0:30): MP3
- The Lullaby (0:30): MP3
- The Deprived (0:27): MP3
- The World (0:46): MP3
- Pride (1:03): MP3
- I'm Seeing Two Friends Together (0:31): MP3
- Complete recording (1:15:44): MP3
A Selection
- The Inclination of the Earth (0:37): MP3
- Home Address (1:40): MP3
- My Father Photographed with Friends (1:28): MP3
- The Changes (1:34): MP3
- At Tikal (2:04): MP3
- The Annihilation of Matter (1:23): MP3
- The Beautiful Wall, Machu Picchu (1:37): MP3
- The Nature of Musical Form (1:19): MP3
- The World in Time and Space (1:18): MP3
- The Outcry (0:49): MP3
- The Smile on the Face of a Kouros (3:12): MP3
- Colloquuy on a Bed (1:31): MP3
- On Credo Ut Intelligam (4:56): MP3
- On Divers Geometries (1:17): MP3
- Uncle Will (1:55): MP3
- The Real Surrounging: On Canaletto's Venice (2:57): MP3
- That Something There Is Should Be (0:56)MP3
- Something Like Teepees (1:19): MP3
- The Abnegation (1:06): MP3
- Yes: I Mean So OK -- Love (0:29): MP3
- The Ignorant Lust After Knowledge (1:18): MP3
- Dos-A-Dos (1:13): MP3
- The Fiction of Shape (1:36): MP3
- The Importuning of Truth (1:41): MP3
- To Praise the Music (1:28): MP3
- Where It Ends (0:55): MP3
- The Poems: All Concessions Made (1:29): MP3
- Names Like Barney Cain's (0:24): MP3
- The Rapport (0:29)MP3
- To Be a Saint Like Christopher (0:26): MP3
- The Passage (0:35): MP3
- On Being Together (0:28): MP3
- The World (0:41): MP3
- The Deprived (0:22): MP3
- The Inability (0:23): MP3
- The Lack of Information (0:19): MP3
"The Inability," "On Being Together," "The Rapport," and "Names Like Barney Cain’s" from the book Finding Losses are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 99.
Recording History:
All selections were recorded by Verna Gillis in Hudson Falls, New York on October 13, 1978.
Credits: These poems have previously appeared in My Father
Photographed with Friends (1976); Light and Dark (1956); The
World, the Worldless (1964); The Empty Hands (1969);
That Tantalus (1971); To Praise the Music (1972); Silence
and Metaphor (1975); The Meantime (1976); Finding Losses (1976).
Staff for this recording:
- Producer: Poetry in Pubic Places
- Recording Engineer: Verna Gillis
- Exec. Producer: Alan Austin
Oppen speaking on William Bronk and Diane Wakowski, Reading at the Academy of American Poets, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966
- Complete recording (05:47): MP3
Reading, 1979 (location and exact date unknown)
Complete recording (53:59): MP3
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational
use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author and the Columbia University
Libraries. © 2016 William Bronk. Used with permission of the Trustees of Columbia University
in the City of New York. Distributed by PennSound.