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PoemTalk #15, Discussing Lyn Hejinian 's "constant change figures," feat. Tom Mandel, Bob Perelman , and Thomas Devaney
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Tom Mandel: Collaborating on The Grand Piano the ten of us exchanged thousands of emails. A
recurrent subject in our correspondence was the question of the absent pianists—those poets &
other artists with whom we had been & often still were close but who did not figure among the
authors of our project. I decided to read passages from my Grand Piano essays that addressed
the experience & significance of absence and those absent in a number of ways: my invention of
a fictional poet nonetheless a member of our cohort (#10), a trip to New York with Ron to attend
a memorial for Emma Bee Bernstein who had died at 23 some weeks earlier (#8), & one of the
last visits Beth & I had from our dear friend the filmmaker Warren Sonbert about a year before
his death of AIDS (#7).
David Bromige Memorial Reading, Kelly Writers House, September 25, 2018
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Complete Recording: MP3
Tom Mandel , Studio 111 Session, Recorded June 4, 2008
A Garment (by Abraham ibn Ezra) (1:09): MP3
Gravity and Grace (3:28): MP3
To Music (From Memory) (4:23): MP3
No Takers (6:34): MP3
Ut Pictura Poesis (5:36): MP3
Communication Through Hints (7:25): MP3
1902 (1:50): MP3
Spoken Quotation (0:56): MP3
Xmas '73 (0:34): MP3
Twenty Years War (0:57): MP3
Only the Sun (0:18): MP3
Biography (1:16): MP3
Filmic (0:33): MP3
Mandel discusses "Ramah" (0:46): MP3
A Revealed Pattern (0:57): MP3
Fire of Wandering (0:47): MP3
Communication Through Hints (1:02): MP3
Ben Siran (0:28): MP3
Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (1:33): MP3
Moscow Metro Station Mosaics III (1:01): MP3
Ancestral Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (4:26): MP3
Moscow Metro Station Mosaics: Marginalia (3:14): MP3
Mandel discusses To the Cognoscenti (0:52): MP3
from "To the Cognoscenti" (2:16): MP3
"Persepolis and other hot spots . . ." (0:47): MP3
"He has let slip . . ." (3:22): MP3
"Blade along incline . . ." (3:34): MP3
Part X: "Later the narrator finds himself . . ." (1:08): MP3
Part XII: "Introduction" (1:48): MP3
The Cave (13:35): MP3
Studio 111 Session Produced by Michael S. Hennessey
"Entitlement & Doubt (Postcards & Procrastination)" (11:41): MP3
(click for photos of the postcard [front & back ] and envelope Mandel discusses in his
talk)
PoemTalk #19, discussing Bob Perelman's "The Unruly Child," July 6, 2009
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PoemTalk #15, discussing Lyn Hejinian's "constant change figures," March 9, 2009
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Introduction (5:00): MP3
Education of the Poet, an Autobiography (11:13): MP3
Day (1:35): MP3
Rust on a New Penny (3:38): MP3
Standards of Compression (9:27): MP3
Temptation Roofing (7:49): MP3
Absence Sensorium (2:35): MP3
Complete Reading (41:17):
MP3
Untitled (2:16): MP3
Untitled (5:52): MP3
Untitled (1:42): MP3
Untitled (0:50): MP3
Fire of Wandering (0:50): MP3
Untitled (6:34): MP3
Complete Program (also featuring Ammiel Alcalay ) (1:38:18):
MP3
A transcript of the complete program (in PDF format) is available here
Logo Daedalus: Issue #6, Autumn 1993
note: Tom Mandel recorded the first poem, "Palestine 8," on In the American Tree , hosted by Lyn Hejinian , on December 15, 1978
"A Form is a Fragment of Content, "Philosopher's Song," and "No Takers" were recorded on October 8, 1993
Tom Mandel (16:20): MP3
complete recording (1:32:52): MP3
Talk on Spinoza: Philosophy and Poetry. June 24, 1979
Part One (46:44): MP3
Part Two (46:52): MP3
Part Three (11:51): MP3
(Question at beginning cut off due to poor sound quality)
Above Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman
"Blindness," 1220 Folsom Street, San Francisco, October 27, 1977
From the Talk Series curated by Bob Perelman
Tape 1 (1:31:21): MP3
Tape 2 (35:43): MP3
Also on PennSound:
Alan Berheimer's Particle Arms (1982) , which featured Mandel as a performer.
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