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Peter Cole, 2006. Photo: Lynn Saville.

PoemTalk Podcast #96, discussing Allen Grossman's "My Radiant Eye," January 10, 2016

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PoemTalk Podcast #56, discussing Charles Reznikoff's "Salmon and red wine" and "During the Second World War, I was going home one night," July 26, 2012

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Multilingual Poetics Reading, Kelly Writers House, October 28, 2015

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  • Complete Recording (1:01:00): MP3

Reading of select poems from The Invention of Influence, Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House, October 28, 2015

  1. On Being Partial (0:46): MP3
  2. Actual Angels (4:12): MP3
  3. More for Santob (2:44): MP3
  4. Song of the Shattering Vessels (1:46): MP3
  5. Quatrains for a Calling (1:41): MP3
  6. Summer Syntax (0:54): MP3
  7. Being Led (0:48): MP3
  8. What Is (2:49): MP3

Full Recording (17:31): MP3

Studio 111 Recording Session, UPenn, January 23, 2012

From Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions, 2008)

  1. Improvisation on Lines by Isaac the Blind (1:43): MP3
  2. (Valent)Lines for A (1:19): MP3
  3. from “Things on Which I’ve Stumbled” (9:01): MP3
  4. And So the Skin (0:50): MP3
  5. from “Notes on Bewilderment" (4:43): MP3
  6. Coexistence: A Lost and Almost Found Poem (1:52): MP3
  7. Israel Is (0:17): MP3
  8. Palestine: A Sestina (3:15): MP3
  9. from What Has Been Prepared:
    Sounds of Rain (1:04): MP3
    What Does Always Mean (1:25): MP3
    Always An Eye (1:01): MP3
    What Is It that Gives Rise (2:03): MP3
    Radiant Morning (1:04): MP3
  10. The Ghazal of What Hurt (1:43): MP3

    11. New Poems

  11. More for Santob (3:08): MP3

    12. From Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press, 1998 / What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 (Shearsman Books, 2005)

  12. News that Stays (1:57): MP3
  13. Two Poems on Translation (0:45): MP3
  14. Qualms: Some Proverbs (2:42): MP3
  15. From Speech's Hedge:
    Speech's Hedge (1:55): MP3
    School: Scripture (0:37): MP3
    Through the Knees (1:39): MP3
    Heirloom (Spines) (0:42): MP3
    Blessings Echoes Will Traumatize (1:24): MP3
    I Sing a Doubled Song (4:23): MP3
  16. On the Perfection of Style (0:15): MP3
  17. Two by Fours (for Also Rans) (0:38): MP3
  18. Suite for Santob (3:05): MP3
  19. (Tuning)Hooks (0:41): MP3

    20. From Rift (Station Hill, 1989 / What Is Doubled, Shearsman, 2005)

  20. Alphabet (0:43): MP3
  21. from "Rift" (4:14): MP3
  22. Torches (0:52): MP3
  23. from "Leviticus" (2:59): MP3
  24. from "Ambit" (4:10): MP3

Reading from The Dream of the Poem at the KWH, October 8, 2007

  1. Introduction (5:13): MP3
  2. on writing, revolution, and Judaism (3:49): MP3
  3. epigraph from The Dream of the Poem (2:33): MP3
  4. Dunash and the hybridization of Arabic and Hebrew (7:29): MP3
  5. "Will Her Love Remember?" by the wife of Dunash (2:55): MP3
  6. "A Curse" by Yosef Ibn Avitor (3:08): MP3
  7. "A Plea" by Yosef Ibn Avitor (1:18): MP3
  8. "The Gazelle" by Shmu'el Hanagid (2:01): MP3
  9. "The Multiple Troubles of Man" by Shmu'el Hanagid (1:58): MP3
  10. "The Market" by Shmu'el Hanagid (1:36): MP3
  11. "The Altar of Song" by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol (3:13): MP3
  12. "Before My Being" by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol (4:54): MP3
  13. "A Wedding Night's Consolation" by Yosef Ibn Tzaddiq (4:59): MP3
  14. "The Wedding Night, Continued" by Avraham Ibn Ezra (2:36): MP3
  15. "Curses' Composition" by Yehuda Alharizi (2:23): MP3
  16. "Palindrome for a Patron" by Yehuda Alharizi (1:08): MP3
  17. from The Battles of the Pen and the Scissors by Shem Tov Ardutiel (Santob de Carrion) (6:12): MP3
  18. "Beyond Words" by Vidal Benveniste (1:32): MP3
  19. "She Trapped Me" by Sa'adia Ibn Danaan (3:04): MP3
  20. "Chiasmus for a Doe" by Sa'adia Ibn Danaan (0:34): MP3
  21. Q&A Discussion (21:25): MP3
Complete reading (1:24:38): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics #11, Refusing The Wall, January 7, 2004

  1. introduction (0:43): MP3
  2. on moving to Jerusalem and starting Ibis Editions (3:44): MP3
  3. bringing together distant and different literary works (4:09): MP3
  4. translating into English and the tradition of translation (6:53): MP3
  5. Peter Cole on his book Hymns & Qualms, linkage, and nourishment (2:41): MP3
  6. discussing the section "I Sing A Doubled Song," from Hymns & Qualms (4:38): MP3
  7. reading "I Sing A Doubled Song" (3:33): MP3
  8. on "Speech's Hedge" and using the whole range of speech's possibility (1:08): MP3

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