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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

Reading at Wexler Studio, May 9, 2024

from camels & weasels (performances from hamlet)

  1. finally, god's suffering from vertigo. (0:32): MP3
  2. in our milky way (0:14): MP3
  3. among our vanishing caresses (0:22): MP3
  4. a mosqiito is crawling (0:12): MP3
  5. an ideogram of death (0:14): MP3
  6. singed (0:27): MP3
  7. argal (1:14): MP3
  8. on the globe stage, hamlet and polonius practicing adlibbing their lines on hamlet's mad scene (0:50): MP3
  9. the why      ?
    axis, (0:19): MP3
  10. In the interstellar spaces of the heart (0:17): MP3
  11. the universe performs its cameo line (0:16): MP3
  12. a theory of the lyric (0:28): MP3
  13. i'm behind the wall. (0:20): MP3
  14. from the garden to the house the minus-x axis. (0:52): MP3
  15. the broken branch (0:54): MP3
  16. the dream gaze of narcissus (0:16): MP3
  17. protective coloration (0:17): MP3
  18. phenomena logical first steps (1:16): MP3
  19. Garden: [the ghost is instructing the players how to play his murder] (1:57): MP3
  20. "the rest is..." (1:11): MP3
  21. a zone of unresolved silence (0:21): MP3
  22. The Interiority of an Accident (2:06): MP3
  23. albatross caught in the wind      ? (0:40): MP3
  24. the fall of a sparrow (0:41): MP3
  25. no one.
    has lived (0:28): MP3

Complete recording of readings from camels & weasels (17:05): MP3

reading and discussing Sami Bhaydar's poetry

  1. introductory remarks (1:49): MP3
  2. Leaf (0:53): MP3
  3. I Am Touching Your Ear (1:06): MP3
  4. Why Are You Coming Near (0:59): MP3
  5. This Is Not a Woman's Face (0:51): MP3
  6. Cherry Liquor (1:35): MP3
  7. The Optical Windmill (0:51): MP3
  8. The Accident Victim's Dance (1:03): MP3
  9. Rubber (1:20): MP3
  10. A Seabird (1:44): MP3
  11. Sami Bhaydar: A language of dying (6:48): MP3

the afterlife of Io (an autobiography), from Io's Song

  • signatures' colors (1:43): MP3
  • VIII (3:07): MP3
  1. The Open Garden: Tangential (0:23): MP3
  2. there's there (0:57): MP3
  3. the wind (0:18): MP3
  4. the enclosed park (0:12): MP3
  5. in the arms of the eternal--Odysseus (0:38): MP3
  6. my soul blankets the ocean, no one sees waves protruding. (0:29): MP3
  • IX (6:02): MP3
  1. Para / Dice (0:50): MP3
  2. Cause and Effect, a Linguistic Play: the Metaphysics of a Poem (2:55): MP3
  3. enthropy of the stars (0:40): MP3
  4. A Flat Portrait of Departure (1:33): MP3
  • X (5:21): MP3
  1. spirit is flesh, (0:21): MP3
  2. event horizon (0:34): MP3
  3. The Matter of Signals (1:04): MP3
  4. "my leg... surrounded by melancholic water kiss." (1:12): MP3
  5. A Dialhectic Poem (0:17): MP3
  6. "brooks of heaven flow..." (1:45): MP3
  • XI (4:26): MP3
  1. "...Names are as the morning breeze..." (0:14): MP3
  2. Epitaph—Wind Through the Cypresses (0:56): MP3
  3. "The sky droopsshimmer ing..." (0:14): MP3
  4. The infinitely small vocabulary of a diagonal so-so parade. (1:15): MP3
  5. Argos (0:36): MP3
  6. A Digression: Tieresias Responds Angrily to Oedipus's Bullying Query (0:59): MP3
  • XII (8:12): MP3
  1. the migration of ions (2:00): MP3
  2. Reintegration (1:25): MP3
  3. enigma (1:14): MP3
  4. Chaff (0:23): MP3
  5. menelaus, the cuckold: A Narrative (0:30): MP3
  6. Fracking: Medidation On a Text by W. Benjamin (2:29): MP3
  7. Höderlin hears voices thru the wall in his cell (0:53): MP3
  • XII 2 (6:04): MP3
  1. sitting on the face (1:18): MP3
  2. brain cancer (0:13): MP3
  3. Rocks 'n Breaks of the Heart (3:38): MP3
  • XIII (5:59): MP3
  1. Degas's "Woman Drinking Absynth": Moments of Visual Articulation (1:00): MP3
  2. Pomagranate (1:24): MP3
  3. "sadness fell on words prior to the skin..." (0:20): MP3
  4. Nietzche's Hatred (0:37): MP3
  5. "M" Sees "A" In His Dream (0:29): MP3
  6. Wombles: A Lullaby (1:13): MP3
  7. when quinces become pomegranates (0:17): MP3
  8. Peeping Tom (0:28): MP3
  • The Problem Poem: Io's Song, A Crisis of Reading (4:41): MP3
  • Futher Notes: On Myths (2:10): MP3

Complete recording of the afterlife of Io (an autobiography) (48:02): MP3

Reading at Wexler Studio, September 26, 2023

Io's song (a biographical essay), from Io's Song

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

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2017 Murat Nemet-Nejat. Used with the permission of Murat Nemet-Nejat. Distributed by PennSound.