Edwin Denby
Photograph © Rudy Burckhardt
(38 min. total)
- The
Climate (0:56)
- The Subway
- People
on Sunday (1:17)
- To
peer at the common man as at a Hero (0:58)
- The
married man is grateful for the stuffy room (0:56)
- Three
old shepherders so filthy in their ways (0:55)
- Lunchroom
(0:32)
- Lunchroom
(version two) (0:27)
- In
Salzburg (0:42)
- Postcard
(1:16)
- When
you're sitting at a counter or in a grocery store (1:33)
- Adjoining
Entrances to Office Buildings in Renaissance Styles (1:06)
- Luncheonette
Display (0:56)
- Mid-Day
Crowd (1:13)
- Northern
Boulevard (0:56)
- Laurel
Hill (incomplete) (0:44)
- Hung
Sundays from Manhattan... (1:07)
- Meeting
a freightyard head on... (1:04)
- On
weedy outskirts the factories lodge (1:03)
- An
eye is wide and open like a day (1:06)
- Florence
(1:12)
- Siena
(1:07)
- The
Parthenon (1:03)
- Ciampino
- Envoi (1:07)
- The
Spring goes drifting, angel of deceit (1:03)
- Born
in my loft, dancer untame (0:54)
- Slight
man walking, inveighs to himself (0:51)
- Writing
poems, an employee... (0:53)
- Alex
Katz paints his north window (0:53)
- Slight,
P.R tiny son she lay (0:54)
- The
grand Republic's poet... (0:49)
- Grey
blue ridge, grey green leafage (0:59)
- Disorder,
mental, strikes me... (0:54)
(text
of poem and commentary
by Jacob Burckhardt (Jacket 21)
- Drought
has burnt the meadow pink-gold (1:01)
- New
York dark in August... (0:51)
- The
newspaper lies slid, tracked up (0:55)
- Is
Her Matter (a play) (1:41)
- Remote
from New York, on north dunes (0:57)
- Short
excerpt from the movie LURK (1963) (0:14)
Recorded and edited by Jacob Burckhardt 1976-83.
Originally issued as a compact disc in 2004. This CD
is available from The Poetry Project in New York and can
be ordered directly by calling 212-674-0910 or by
e-mailing info@poetryproject.com.
From The World Record:
Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
- Elegy -- the Streets (5:36): MP3
Additional Edwin Denby Recordings
Photograph © Rudy Burckhardt
Bibliography:
The Complete
Poems, edited with an introduction by Ron Padgett, essays by Frank
O'Hara and Lincoln Kirstein, photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, Random House,
1986
Dance Writings & Poetry,
edited by Robert Cornfield,Yale University Press,1998
Looking at the Dance, introduction by B. H. Haggin, Horizon Press,
originally 1936, reprinted 1968
Edwin
Denby feature in Jacket 21 (2003)
Collected Poems, Full Court Press, 1975
In Public, In Private,
poems by Edwin Denby, with photographs by Rudy Burckhardt
Dancers, Buildings, & People In the Streets, introduction
by Frank O'Hara, Horizon Press, 1965
Mrs. W's Last Sandwich:
A RomanceScream in a Cave, Curtis Books, 1972)
Snoring in New York, Angel Hair Press, 1974
Miltie is a Hackie, a libretto, movie stills by Rudy Burckhardt,
Z Press, 1973
Mag City 14 -- Edwin
Denby Issue, introduction by Mark Hillringhouse, 1982
Mediterranean Cities: sonnets by Edwin Denby, photographs by Rudy
Burckhardt, George Wittenborn, Inc., 1961
Edwin's Tao, a translation
of Lao Tze's Tao Teh Ching, Crumbling Empire Press, 1993
Two Conversations With
Edwin Denby, Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds Publications, for
the occasion of the presentation of "The Life and Times of
Joseph Stalin" at BAM, 1973
The Second Hurricane,
vocal score, libretto by Edwin Denby, music by Aaron Copland, Boosey & Hawkes,
NYC, 1937
Ballet Review: "Edwin
Denby Remembered," I, II, III -- Spring, Summer, Fall, 1984
Ballet with photographs by Alexei Brodovitch and text by Denby (J.J. Augustin, New York, 1945)
Willem De Kooning (Hanuman books, Madras and New York, 1988)
Compiled by Mimi Gross
"Visiting Edwin Denby’s Mediterranean Cities" by Vincent Katz
Mediterranean Cities by Edwin Denby (full text)
These sound recordings are being made available for
noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material
belong to the Estate of Edwin Denby. © 2004 Estate of Edwin Denby. Used
with permission of Jacob Burckhardt. Distributed by PennSound.
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