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Peter Gizzi

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Close Listening: Reading and Conversation at Art Radio WPS1 with Charles Bernstein, March 17, 2008

Conversation (23:23): MP3
Reading (26:30): MP3

from Periplum and other poems (1987-1992)
Thirty Sentencesfor No One (3:05): MP3
Periplum (0:35) MP3

from Artificial Heart (1998)
Another day on the Pilgrimage (5:22) MP3
Tous les Matins du Monde (1:09) MP3

from Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003)
Plain Song (2:14) MP3
Beginning With a Phrase from Simone Weil (2:15) MP3

from The Outernationale (2007)
The Quest (0:32) MP3
The Outernationale (2:18) MP3
Untitled Amherst Specter (0:38) MP3
Protest Song (0:38) MP3
A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (7:43) MP3

Close Listening Engineer: Jeannie Hooper
Additional technical support: Michael Hennessey

Reading at Boise State University, Hemingway Center, September 22, 2023

Complete recording (44:47): MP3

Reading with interview and introduction by Ocean Vuong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 18, 2021

Reading from Sky Burial via Zoom, hosted by Colin Herd, May 11, 2020

Complete video (53:29): MP4, YouTube

Reading in Brooklyn, January 4, 2020

recorded by Charles Bernstein

from Now It's Dark (2020)

Complete Recording (22:38): MP3

Speech Acts for a Dying World (2:08): MP3
That I Saw the Light on Nonotuck Avenue (1:42): MP3
Every Day I Want to Fly My Kite (1:45): MP3
The Present is Constant Elegy (1:07): MP3
Now It's Dark (3:59): MP3
The Afterlife of Paper (0:26): MP3
Flood Subject (1:29): MP3
Last Poem (2:08): MP3
Inside Out Loud (1:43): MP3
Now It's Dark (1:11): MP3
The Blossom Is Stronger Than Us (0:32): MP3
Some Joy for Morning: MP3 (0:40)
From This End of Sadness (2:51): MP3

from Threshold Songs (2011)

Complete Recording (21:14): MP3

The Growing Edge (1:44): MP3
Eye of the Poem (1:06): MP3
Analemma (1:34): MP3
Basement Song (0:39): MP3
Fragment (0:36): MP3
Pinocchio's Gnosis (8:09): MP3
Lullaby (0:43): MP3
Apocrypha (3:50): MP3
A Note on the Text (0:42): MP3
Bardo (1:11): MP3

Poetry Reading at the Kelly Writers House on October 2, 2017

Complete Reading (21:21) MP3

Reading of Flow Chart, John Ashbery 90th Celebration, 2017

Complete Reading (8:19): MP3

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, April 14, 2015

Full recording available here.

Reading from The Outernationale, recorded at The Nation offices, September 17, 2010

Matthew Brady Photographs (00:54) MP3
Homer's Anger (04:29) MP3
Beacon (05:30) MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, April 7, 2009

film available from Double Change archives.

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

reading "Leviathan" from Materials MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, New York, April 8, 2008

Gizzi reads Oppen's "Leviathan" (1:10): MP3
Gizzi reads Oppen's "World, World" (1:10): MP3
Gizzi reads Oppen's "Power, Enchanted World" (2:15): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Peter & the Analogue World, March 17, 2008

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Peter Gizzi
We were on the roof of the Clocktower, just about to go to the Chinatown for lunch. On a clear day you can Queens, which is just over Peter's left shoulder.
(mp4, 28 sec., 10.5 mb)

Cross-Cultural Poetics, October 14, 2007

Gizzi reads from and discusses The Outernationale.
(29:55): MP3 (27MB)

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Peter Gizzi, June 4, 2007

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Peter's Marigolds
The flowering Spring trees amidst the pines.
(mp4, 30 sec., 6.2 mb)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 14, 2004

Introduction (1:43): MP3
A History of the Lyric (5:34): MP3

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
The ethics of dust
In the garden
To his wife far off in a time of war
A history of the lyric
Coda

A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (1 & 3) (3:44): MP3
Add This to the House (0:46): MP3
Chateau If (1:17): MP3
In Defense of Nothing (0:34): MP3
Overtakelessness (0:55): MP3
Revival (6:13): MP3

Reading with Elizabeth Willis, SUNY Buffalo, April 9, 2003

Introduction (3:04): MP3
Beginning with a Phrase by Simone Weil (3:00): MP3
A History of the Lyric: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear (2:17): MP3
A History of the Lyric: The ethics of dust (0:52): MP3
A History of the Lyric: In the garden (1:18): MP3
A History of the Lyric: To his wife far off in a time of war (0:30): MP3
A History of the Lyric (0:51): MP3
A History of the Lyric: Coda (0:31): MP3
Some Values of Landscape and Weather (4:40): MP3
Revival (7:41): MP3
In Defense of Nothing (0:37): MP3
Protest Song (1:20): MP3

Complete reading (27:43): MP3

Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001

introduction (0:45): MP3
Song Out of Mind, For, After, and By, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop (3:08): MP3
Tous Les Matins Du Monde (1:19): MP3
Lonely Tylenol (1:06): MP3
Ding Repair (5:07): MP3
Stars of Track and Field (1:32): MP3
Masters of Conte Jondo (1:23): MP3
Fin Amor (2:17): MP3
Beginning With a Phrase from Simone Weil (2:44): MP3

Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1997

Reading on March 21, 1997 (26:04): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

Pierced (7:24): MP3

Canadian Emergency Tour Interview with Shelagh Rogers, 1994

Jeff Derksen, Lisa Robertson, Catriona Strang, Nancy Shaw with Peter Gizzi (19:35): MP3

Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 2, 1993

The Locket (1:13): MP3
A Speaking Part (2:20): MP3
Utopia Parkway (1:59): MP3
Hard As Ash (11:16): MP3

Complete reading (16:35): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, March 13, 1993

introduction (1:35): MP3
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens (1:30): MP3
Sum Body (4:51): MP3
Still Life with Automobile (0:39): MP3
Lonely Tylenol (1:21): MP3
Periplum (1:37): MP3
The Locket (After the holiday the phone was silent) (1:46): MP3
The Locket (Here is the ashtray) (0:44): MP3
Periplum II (0:29): MP3
The Locket (Dear E. Who was that thin figure inhabiting a bedroom?) (0:44): MP3
Periplum III (0:25): MP3
The Locket (All the mirrors in the world) (0:46): MP3
Periplum IV (0:24): MP3
Song of the Liver (0:45): MP3
The Locket (Stay there O and forgive the usages known as speech) (0:41): MP3
Periplum V (0:24): MP3
The Locket (Next the composition insists on playing the game for keeps) (0:48): MP3
Periplum VI (0:37): MP3
Song of the Den (0:56): MP3
The Locket (This day black knee socks on a grey field) (0:47): MP3
Periplum VII (a valentine) (0:40): MP3
Dear Jack (2:08): MP3
Postcard (0:31): MP3

Complete recording (26:29): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, June 6, 1992

introduction (1:23): MP3
Asserted Abundance (2:18): MP3
Song of the Interior Begin (2:07): MP3
Mahler's 2nd (0:59): MP3
Mise en Scene (1:21): MP3
Periplum (0:33): MP3
Song of the Comparative Night (0:47): MP3
The Locket (Dear E. Who was that thin figure inhabiting a bedroom?) (0:41): MP3
Song of a Lexicon (0:28): MP3
Periplum IV (0:21): MP3
Blue Peter (3:27): MP3
Song of the Liver (0:44): MP3
The Locket (Stay there O and forgive the usages known as speech) (0:42): MP3
Capital (0:44): MP3
The Locket (This day black knee socks on a grey field) (1:23): MP3
Deux ex Machina (3:42): MP3
Song of an Acute Angle (0:31): MP3
Hard as Ash (9:21): MP3

Complete reading (32:59): MP3

Reading at SUNY Buffalo, February 12, 1992

Complete reading (4:57): MP3

Also on Pennsound

PhillyTalks, Episode #10 with Steven Farmer - March 1, 1999
Peter Gizzi reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

Peter Gizzi on PennSound Daily

May 23, 2008: "A New Close Listening, Reading, and Conversation with Peter Gizzi"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.Close Listening ©2008 by Charles Bernstein & Peter Gizzi. All rights to all the other recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2017 Peter Gizzi. Used with permission of Peter Gizzi. Distributed by PennSound.

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