Murat Nemet-Nejat

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #257: "The Page," 2012

Nemet-Nejat reads from his new book of poetry The Spiritual Life of Replicants (Talisman House) (19:22): MP3

• Introductory Remarks (0:25): MP3
• Io's Song: Quotations and Dedication (0:54): MP3
• I (3:16): MP3
1. "The secrets of a language're hidden..." (1:12): MP3
2. An/kara: My Kind Hearted Step Mother (1:58): MP3
• II (11:56): MP3
3. Cyclops (0:13): MP3
4. Prophecy & Space (0:57): MP3
5. Gossip's Notations (1:54): MP3
6. Sex Toy (0:18): MP3
7. theatre (0:55): MP3
8. Dashes (0:21): MP3
9. Io's Lament (0:48): MP3
10. the gray dawn (0:23): MP3
11. "love, of..." (0:35): MP3
12. amor doloroso (0:28): MP3
13. no one home (1:56): MP3
14. "immense pool o..." (1:20): MP3
15. "everything begins with the uttered sound sprung..." (0:14): MP3
16. disappearance (0:14): MP3
17. The Mirror (0:30): MP3
18. lie d (0:31): MP3
• III (4:46): MP3
19. at silences's threshold. (0:51): MP3
20. I hear (0:35): MP3
21. To B. Hollander: an Elegy in the Shape Of an E-mail (0:27): MP3
22. Nymphs (0:41): MP3
23. Bee Sting (1:00): MP3
24. "In this new place..." (0:10): MP3
25. "can see now that the ornate gate..." (0:22): MP3
26. "there are four spots of pure white..." (0:25): MP3
• IV (4:44): MP3
27. A Needle Is Dropped On the Water (0:11): MP3
28. Raptors E-rupting (0:57): MP3
29. "Colors colors of death are everything..." (0:56): MP3
30. Venezuela - The Descent of Zeus (1:32): MP3
31. Annunciation (0:35): MP3
32. "s p i n i t u a l  w o r d s ..." (0:26): MP3
• V (15:25): MP3
33. > kin < kind (0:05): MP3
34. Dick- / in- / son (0:08): MP3
35. Dying In A Turkish Bath (0:52): MP3
36. Pornography (0:39): MP3
37. Rainbow (0:44): MP3
38. Hermes in Action, as an Agent for Zeus, Rescuing Io: the Play Within the Play (1:47): MP3
39. Joy (0:47): MP3
40. pour / n unicorn (0:11): MP3
41. A cross. (0:24): MP3
42. Virginal (0:48): MP3
43. Hermes Bored Argus With a Story and Argus of the Hundred Eyes Listened (2:18): MP3
44. "Shearing the cloud..." (1:11): MP3
45. "The sea visible, moon..." (0:43): MP3
46. Swans (4:22): MP3
• VI (9:02): MP3
47. "Juno gave the heifer (Io) to Argus (100 eyes) to guard..." (0:41): MP3
48. TimeSpace Collapse (0:17): MP3
49. See d (0:56): MP3
50. Cupid (0:19): MP3
51. railings of Notre Dame de Sion (0:48): MP3
52. Door (1:28): MP3
53. Moon Has Three Colors (0:46): MP3
54. Another Biographical Sketch, Boyhood Dreams (3:34): MP3
• VII (3:32): MP3
55. "Afraid of Jove..." (0:33): MP3
56. Rainbow (0:20): MP3
57. The Nile (1:33): MP3
58. Visual Effects (0:59): MP3
Complete Reading from Io's Song (54:22): MP3

from Turkish Voices

1. Introductory notes to Turkish Voices (0:32): MP3
2. Paradise (2:09): MP3
3. Muezzin (1:13): MP3
4. The Bee (0:43): MP3
5. "Whereas a glass of water..." (0:35): MP3
6. The Wall (0:39): MP3
7. "Seeing birds passing over you..." (0:14): MP3
8. "Cutting a slice of watermelon..." (0:13): MP3
9. Pharaoh (0:14): MP3
10. What happened to the baby inside the sarcophagus (0:16): MP3
11. Dying in a Turkish Bath (0:57): MP3
12. "The most beautiful woman, she was..." (1:15): MP3
13. "The clock chimed: hmmm..." (0:45): MP3
14. "Strike a match..." (0:58): MP3
15. "Istanbul was half under the boat" (0:35): MP3
16. "Through the transparent gown..." (0:38): MP3
17. "To be the husband..." (0:13): MP3
18. Dilnişin (1:20): MP3
19. "Loving was such a panacea..." (0:16): MP3
20. "Toes..." (0:14): MP3
21. "Sitting on the Face..." (0:16): MP3
22. Objects (0:26): MP3
23. "Left foot..." (0:34): MP3
24. "The blue spots inside my thighs..." (0:24): MP3
25. "Allah be praised..." (0:09): MP3
26. "A hermaphrodite..." (0:15): MP3
27. "A stalk outbursts in a miniature city..." (1:03): MP3
28. Epigram (0:30): MP3
29. Anatolian Exile's Song (1:30): MP3
30. "A street walker is giving him a broken tipped sword..." (0:57): MP3
31. "He is combing his hair..." (0:35): MP3
32. "He is an inveterate..." (0:33): MP3
33. "How did it get stuck to him..." (0:14): MP3
34. "A few colors explain everything..." (0:22): MP3
35. "To find Turkey is easy..." (0:17): MP3
36. "At the courtyard of the Blue Mosque" (1:24): MP3
37. "Let this be the n—" (0:14): MP3
38. "He got in backdoors..." (1:08): MP3
39. "Oh, play on..." (0:08): MP3
40. "They sheared the cloud..." (1:02): MP3
41. "Easy..." (0:19): MP3
42. "No no no..." (0:35): MP3
43. "I can not come down..." (0:21): MP3
44. "In your secret, most private parts traps are set..." (0:25): MP3
45. "My black mulberry..." (1:25): MP3
46. The Apple (2:12): MP3
47. "I can't protect the sadness of my labia..." (1:27): MP3
48. "Bury my wounded song..." (1:15): MP3
49. "A watermelon broke..." (0:30): MP3
50. Punishment Fit the Crime (0:44): MP3
51. Multiplication of Passion in a Cursed Triangle (0:24): MP3
52. Peeping Tom (0:18): MP3
53. "What likes ice cream..." (0:11): MP3
54. preamble to essays (1:09): MP3
55. I. Fragments at the Beginning of a Poetic Journey (8:19): MP3
56. II. The Broken Jar, Thoughts on Walter Benjamin's Idea of Translation (16:29): MP3
Complete Reading from Turkish Voices (37:40): MP3

Xit The Bear: Readings in The Press Room with Peter Valente, Somerville MA, November 12, 2017

Introductions by Michael Franco

Watch on Media.sas

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, January 31, 2012

1. introduction by Bob Perelman (6:00): MP3
2. To Seyhan Erozcelik, after his friend Haydar Ergulen's Zarf (1:53): MP3
3. Coffee Grinds 9 [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (3:26): MP3
4. Birdrose [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:19): MP3
5. Moody Love [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:12): MP3
6. Beerose [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:13): MP3
7. "The bush is growing" [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:27): MP3
8. Rosemountain [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:13): MP3
9. Dreamrose [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:40): MP3
10. Spin-o-sa [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:29): MP3
11. "s-pun raccoon worshipping the rose" [from Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Seyhan Erozcelik)] (0:37): MP3
12. from "A Few Thoughts on Fragments" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (3:29): MP3
13. epigraphs from The Spiritual Life of Replicants (0:48): MP3
14. "Imagining death is before all image(-ining) the eye's absence" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (1:28): MP3
15. Burial of What Isseen [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:08): MP3
16. "Ray-ograph, a motion of light without the camera obscura" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:41): MP3
17. Steam [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:36): MP3
18. "A bird flies a straight wide path" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:13): MP3
19. The Theft [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:57): MP3
20. "What's for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:23): MP3
21. "A triangle entered the room" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:34): MP3
22. The Triangle in the River [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (2:17): MP3
23. "I and Godard have a crush on Karina" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:28): MP3
24. "A motion of light without the camera obscura" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:29): MP3
25. The Mortal Proof [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (1:31): MP3
26. "If the future exists" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:38): MP3
27. "Dying can be seen" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:31): MP3
28. "no(t)w" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:13): MP3
29. "We need to confront vague ideas with clear images" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:23): MP3
30. "eye do not exIsst" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:12): MP3
31. "The camera steals our eyes to tell its own dreams" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:39): MP3
32. "If the groom escapes out of the window the day of his wedding, he'll never come back." Gogol, The Wedding [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:09): MP3
33. Replicants [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:42): MP3
34. "The thoughts of disappearance is" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:19): MP3
35. "How beautiful the color of tea" (Orhan Veli) [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:18): MP3
36. "I hear wings in the foliage" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:09): MP3
37. "the eye sees the contradictions in words" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:09): MP3
38. The Wold Shadow [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (1:49): MP3
39. "When One has given up One's Life" (Emily Dickinson) [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:27): MP3
40. "Windows, windows are better" (Orhan Veli) [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:13): MP3
41. The Eyes Absence [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (1:00): MP3
42. "oooscape" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:04): MP3
43. "Cezanne painting with the same eye" (R. Bresson) [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:14): MP3
44. The Still Life [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:22): MP3
45. Nature [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:09): MP3
46. "A mass of coffee grind's flying to the sky" (Seyhan Erozcelik) [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:40): MP3
47. "the yellow of the carpet" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:10): MP3
48. "A dart's [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:05): MP3
49. Photons Escaped [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:38): MP3
50. "Death is the ultimate moss" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:07): MP3
51. "I see, I see, said the blind man" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:12): MP3
52. Flight Path of O's [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:20): MP3
53. Luna [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:13): MP3
54. Tic [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:12): MP3
55. "The floating vision of the god of water" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:10): MP3
56. "Through a wordless hole darkly" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:13): MP3
57. Eda [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (1:23): MP3
58. "errgod" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:09): MP3
59. "water mill why are you moaning" (Yunus Emre) [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (1:46): MP3
60. "immense pool" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:36): MP3
61. "ro! because soundnest" [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (0:11): MP3
62. Cast of Nexus-6 Characters in Blade Runner [from The Spiritual Life of Replicants] (1:31): MP3
63. Q&A Discussion (15:05): MP3
• Complete reading (1:03:40): MP3



Writers Without Borders presents New European Poets, Kelly Writers House, September 23, 2008

• Complete reading (6:17): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #138, April 22, 2007

• complete recording (31:39): MP3

Recorded by Chris Funkhouser, Staten Island, New York, June 22, 2001

• "a hippo's anus..." (0:20): MP3

Un-American Poetry: Conversation with Murat Nemet-Nejat, Ben Hollander, and Ammiel Alcalay, Kelly Writers House, March 22, 2001

Murat Nemet-Nejat (18:38): MP3

Complete recording (33:00): MP3

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