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Larry Eigner
PoemTalk #97, discussing poems by Larry Eigner
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.
Jennifer Bartlett on Facebook Live on Eigner, March 20, 2018
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Tribute Reading for Larry Eigner's 90th Birthday, The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, August 7, 2017
On occasion of the publication of the selected poems, with Jennifer Bartlett, Norma Cole, Steve Dickison, Richard Eigner, Norman Fischer, Jack Foley,
Kathleen Frumkin, George Hart, Lyn Hejinian, Kit Robinson, and Stephen Ratcliffe.
Complete recording (1:52:07): MP3
Full, unedited recording of May 10, 2017 session made for Poetry Foundation’s Off the Shelf program. (59:34): MP3
Complete recording (1:14:43): MP3
Eigner reads from Gertrude Stein's Three Lives at the 1995 Gertrude Stein Marathon, Berkeley, curated by Lyn Hejinian. Read the Kush's account, and Stein's text, here.
Complete recording (11:39): MP3
Interview with Jack Foley on WKPFA, Berkeley, CA March 9, 1994
Complete recording (58:54): MP3
Program exerpts
1. Eigner reads "Again dawn" (0:29): MP3
[text: Collected Eigner, II:357]
2. Eigner's remarks after reading
"Again dawn" begin with his commenting on not recalling
exactly what the poem meant. Charles Bernstein has transcribed this short section (0:30): MP3
3. Discussio of this poem with Charles Bernstein, May 13, 2022: Vimeo, PennSound MP4
Well I forget what I meant and ...
disappointed, I guess. You know my mother said to me to communicate you must speak clear ...
first of all ... though I soon realized that immediacy and force take priority.
"Again dawn" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 97.
Reading at Larry Blake's House, San Francisco, April 3, 1986
Complete recording (31:15): MP3
Eigner reading on November 28, 1978
Complete Reading (31:22): MP3
Recording courtesy of Ron Silliman
Around new/sound daily/means, Selected poems, S Press Tape No. 37, recorded by Michael
Kohler at Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1 and 11 July 1974
- Dying (0:38): MP3
- A Structured Field (0:11): MP3
- A Temporary Language (0:20): MP3
- Love Children (0:09): MP3
- Magnetic Lines (0:11): MP3
- Common Sense (0:32): MP3
- Tolstoi's Kept On (0:28): MP3
- To Negotiate (0:13): MP3
- Music is Human (0:19): MP3
- Unyielding Rock (0:37): MP3
- Paper (0:32): MP3
- The Sky (0:15): MP3
- Snow Flakes (0:26): MP3
- Trees Stand (0:22): MP3
- Time Flies (0:06): MP3
- Birds (0:33): MP3
- How Much a Squirrel (0:37): MP3
- The Sun Goes (0:17): MP3
- The Cat's Ears (0:27): MP3
- You Gotta Have Steam (0:38): MP3
- At Death Olson's (1:31): MP3
- Tribute to Cage (1:25): MP3
- Around the Frames (0:15): MP3
- Open Road (0:12): MP3
- Enough New (0:11): MP3
- Contact Communication (0:12): MP3
- Everybody Dies (0:04): MP3
Complete recording (13:55): MP3
"A Temporary Language" and "Unyielding Rock" are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 97.
Getting It Together: A Film on Larry Eigner, directed by Leonard Henny (1973)
© Estate of Leonard Henny. Used with the permission of Alexander Henny.
Abridged Version featuring only Larry Eigner
For additional information, see Jacket2 entry
Media SAS mirror full film: MP4
Media SAS mirror excerpt of Eigner only: MP4
Eigner's Poetry Read by David Gitin for Writers and Writing, KPFA, 10-19-70
- Musical Introduction (7:30): MP3
- Introduction (3:49): MP3
- Part 1: Road Side, Parts of Salem, From the Sustaining Air, B (3:53): MP3
- Part 2: A house divided, from Farther North, from Partition, from Denise Levertov's Introduction, The Fine Life (7:10): MP3
- Part 3: Do the Dogs Know Why They Bark, Out, Parell, Glass, Birthday, The wind like an ocean, For Sleep (6:25): MP3
- Part 4: After all the singing faces, Stoa, Keep Me Still for I Do Not Want to Dream, Again dawn, Loneliness,
Thick and Fast, The Twigs, Gravity Getting Me Down, The Wandering Mosquito (6:48): MP3
- Part 5: Live bird which sings, She Who Would Risk the War, The discursive, The fountain of youth is a poetry,
After a Song by Samuel Barber, I have felt it as they've said, glimpse, Deep valleys, The Disappearance of Matter, Slow is the Poem (5:49): MP3
- Part 6: Children's Sizes are Indeterminate, At Least the Chair Makes Some Noise It's Mysterious, Towards Autumn, June 30th-July 2nd, #411, #416, #427, #428 (6:15): MP3
- Conclusion (6:51): MP3
"Again dawn" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 97.
Also of interest
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recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational
use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the readers. © 2018 by the Estate of Larry Eigner.
Used with permission of the Estate of Larry Eigner. Distributed by PennSound.
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