Program One:Vienna Paradox reading
Perloff reads from her memoir Vienna Paradox (New Directions, 2004) about growing up in Vienna, and her subsequent move, just before the holocaust, to Riverdale.
Program Two: Conversation with Charles Bernstein
Perloff talks about Vienna Paradox, the influence of her experience as a refugee on her literary criticism, her perspective on being a second-language writer of English, the unknown 1950s, her graduate school days with the Christian Brothers at Catholic University of America, irony and Jewish identity, the importance of Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the pernicious influence of Martin Heidegger on postwar thought.
Program Three: Conversation with Charles Bernstein
Perloff talks about a set of schisms that seem to divide 20th century poetry: Yeats versus Futurism; Robert Lowell versus Frank O’Hara; and Wallace Stevens versus Ezra Pound. She reflects on the ongoing legacies of radical modernism for contemporary poetry.
Marjorie Perloff welcome MP4, Bernstein welcome & "Lie of Art" MP4, Bernstein kerynote on InfrathinMP4, Perloff keynote on InfrathinMP4
PoemTalk #185, Discussing Frank O'Hara's "Song (Is it dirty)" and "Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)," feat. Robert von Hallberg, and Charles Altieri
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PoemTalk #142, Discussing Charles Bernstein's "As If the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold Of Us," feat. Tracie Morris, Danny Snelson, and Marjorie Perloff
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PoemTalk #135, Disucssing John Cage's "Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake," feat. Marjorie Perloff, Danny Snelson, and Nancy Perloff
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PoemTalk #127, Discussing John Ashbery's "The Short Answer," August 20, 2018
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PoemTalk #50, discussing Tom Raworth's "Errory," February 28, 2012
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Wiener Vorlesung - Die verschwundene Austromoderne nach 1938, Vienna, Austria, June 11, 2021
Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie and Joe were sittin' on the dock as she told me about the first time she went to New Orleans, when she was a 21-year-old Barnard senior. (mp4, 50 sec., 18.9 mb)
Reading from her memoir at the University at Buffalo, May 20, 2003