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Bob Perelman Talks Series

These are some of the Bay Area Talks. I've never been a careful archivist; these are digitalized from the tapes that survived: it's not a complete record of events.

Talks at New Langton Arts

Steve Benson, "Careers in the Arts," 2/16/78

  • Complete Recording (1:32:45): MP3

Kit Robinson, "Song," 7/24/80

  • Tape 1 (59:05): MP3
  • Tape 2 (18:29): MP3

Michael Palmer, "Autobiography, Memory and Mechanisms of Concealment (Part 1 or One Part)," 7/31/80 Unknown

  • Tape 1 (45:03): MP3
  • Tape 2 (45:26): MP3
  • Tape 3 (28:32): MP3

Tony Towle, Lecture on Poetry, 3/15/78

  • Complete Recording (1:23:25): MP3

Warren Sonbert, "Film Syntax," 7/8/79

  • Tape 1 & 2 (1:30:07): MP3
  • Tape 3 (6:26): MP3

Alan Bernheimer, "Subject Matter," 6/16/80

  • Tape 1 (1:31:13): MP3
  • Tape 2 (24:01): MP3

Steve Benson, "Close Reading," 8/14/80

  • Tape 1 (1:34:16): MP3
  • Tape 2 (40:42): MP3

Alan Davies, "Language/Mind/Writing," 10//29/82

  • Complete Recording (19:45): MP3

Bob Perelman, Langton Arts Residency, 1982

  • Tape 1 (1:28:46): MP3
  • Tape 2 (1:32:31): MP3
  • Tape 3 (1:00:14): MP3
  • Tape 4 (1:01:08): MP3

Charles Bernstein, "Characterization," 1/83

  • Complete Recording (1:33:16): MP3

Talks at 1220 Folsom Street

Bob Perelman, "Enthusiasm and Memory," 5/5/77

  • Tape 1 (1:32:05): MP3
  • Tape 2 (26:56): MP3

Barrett Watten, "On Objectivism," 5/12/77 (archive copy; not available for public use)

  • Tape 1 (1:32:33): MP3
  • Tape 2 (1:01:26): MP3
  • Tape 3 (30:55): MP3

Steve Benson, "Views of Communist China," 5/19/77

  • Complete Recording (46:07): MP3

G. P. Skratz, "On Lies," 5/27/77

  • Complete Recording (59:21): MP3

David Bromige, "Intention and Poetry," 6/2/77

  • Tape 1 (1:31:20): MP3
  • Tape 2 (59:29): MP3

Lewis MacAdams, "Politics and Poetry," 6/30/77

  • Tape 1 (1:30:54): MP3
  • Tape 2 (8:16): MP3

Douglas Wolf, "Tenses," 8/5/77

  • Tape 1 (46:30): MP3
  • Tape 2 (9:55): MP3

Lyn Hejinian "Chronic Ideas," 9/29/77

  • Tape 1 (44:10): MP3
  • Tape 2 (44:27): MP3

Tom Veitch, "God," 10/13/77

  • Complete Recording (1:14:55): MP3

Tom Mandel, "Blindness," 10/27/77

  • Tape 1 (1:31:21): MP3
  • Tape 2 (35:43): MP3

Morgan Wines, "Christopher Caudwell," 11/10/77

  • Tapes 1 & 2 (1:32:06): MP3
  • Tapes 3 & 4 (50:17): MP3

Peter Holland, "Poetry and Natural Philosphy," 11/17/77

  • Tape 1 (34:45): MP3

Chistopher Dewdney, "Parasite Maintenance," 3/2/78

  • Complete Recording (1:30:34): MP3

Talks at the San Francisco Art Institute

Ron Silliman, "The New Sentence," 9/16/77

  • Tape 1 (45:05): MP3
  • Tape 2 (45:15): MP3
  • Tape 3 (1:30:32): MP3

Alternate Recording:
  • Tape 1 (1:32:08): MP3
  • Tape 2 (1:33:19): MP3

Melissa Riley, "Categories and Dogma," 10/14/77

  • Complete Recording (1:31:38): MP3

Talks at Abigail Child's Loft

Barrett Watten, "Russian Formalism and the Present," 3/18/79

  • Tape 1 (43:20): MP3
  • Tape 2 (45:38): MP3
  • Tape 3 & 4 (1:22:35): MP3

Eric Mottram, "A Talk on British Poetry," 4/15/79

  • Tape 1 (45:04): MP3
  • Tape 2 (45:02): MP3
  • Tape 3 & 4 (42:10): MP3

Talks, at Kings College

Lyn Hejinian, Talk at Kings College, 1998

  • Tape 1 (46:01): MP3
  • Tape 2 (45:55): MP3

Talks, Location Unknown

Michael Davidson, "The Prose of Fact," 7/20/78

  • Complete Recording (35:23): MP3

Sheryl Jaffe, "Clichés," 8/5/79

  • Tape 1 (1:30:42): MP3
  • Tape 2 (07:41): MP3

Robert Duncan, "Sound and Voice," Date Unknown

  • Tape 1 (1:29:51): MP3
  • Tape 2 (1:28:58): MP3
  • Tape 3 (44:53): MP3
  • Tape 4 (39:41): MP3


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