Michael Ruby

Reading From Close Your Eyes, Visions, 2023

Close Your Eyes

1. Introduction (4:43): MP3
2. Close Your Eyes 1 (7:13): MP3
3. Close Your Eyes 2 (5:18): MP3
4. Close Your Eyes 3 (8:51): MP3
5. Close Your Eyes 4 (8:51): MP3
6. Close Your Eyes 5 (7:42): MP3
7. Close Your Eyes 6 (4:04): MP3
8. Close Your Eyes 7 (7:27): MP3
9. Close Your Eyes 8 (5:29): MP3
10. Close Your Eyes 9 (6:08): MP3
11. Close Your Eyes 10 (4:11): MP3
12. Close Your Eyes 11 (9:01): MP3
13. Close Your Eyes 12 (10:08): MP3
14. Close Your Eyes 13 (5:03): MP3
15. Close Your Eyes 14 (3:43): MP3

Visions

1. Introduction (1:26): MP3
2. 7-9-07 (0:43): MP3
3. 7-16-07 (0:56): MP3
4. 7-16-07 (6:08): MP3
5. 7-17-07 (3:15): MP3
6. 7-18-07 (2:38): MP3
7. 7-19-07 (1:33): MP3
8. 7-23-07 (0:43): MP3
9. 7-23-07 (4:50): MP3
10. 7-30-07 (0:59): MP3
11. 7-28-08 (4:40): MP3
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63. 8-20-11 (1:47): MP3
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65. 7-1-12 (0:23): MP3
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68. 7-14-12 (4:21): MP3
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78. 7-10-13 (0:30): MP3

Reading from The Star-Spangled Banner, 2020

1. From a Red 2001 Standard Diary (4:03): MP3
2. O world (2:17): MP3
3. O unconscious (2:24): MP3
4. Signs on the Post-9/11 Commute to Work (4:04): MP3
5. O magic property (3:03): MP3
6. O Elvis (2:36): MP3
7. Places in Dreams (4:32): MP3
8. O lockerrooms (2:12): MP3
9. O irresponsible (2:48): MP3
10. From a Red 2003 Standard Diary (3:37): MP3
11. O vehicle (2:22): MP3
12. O monkey (2:21): MP3
13. 1957-2037 (3:27): MP3
14. A Few of My Favorite Things (3:02): MP3
15. O compulsive (2:15): MP3
16. O houses (2:15): MP3
17. Visions (5:09): MP3
18. O boymel (2:20): MP3
19. O Indo-European (2:05): MP3
20. The Triumph of the Red States in 2004 (2:33): MP3
21. O Momaday (2:28): MP3
22. O Borodin (2:52): MP3
23. America's Overseas Military Bases (3:46): MP3
24. O Tory propensities (3:44): MP3
25. O oildrops (2:23): MP3
26. House Republican Leaders Violating the 10 Commandments in 2005 (4:51): MP3
27. O bring dogs (3:24): MP3
28. O smiling (2:18): MP3
29. The Elimination of the U.S. Soccer Team at the 2006 World Cup (3:40): MP3
30. O stone (2:21): MP3
31. O adventure (3:20): MP3
32. A Few of My Favorite Things in American Poetry (3:27): MP3
33. O oniongrass (2:33): MP3
34. O petridish (2:12): MP3
35. A Few of My Favorite Things in T.S. Eliot (4:02): MP3
36. O wretches (2:15): MP3
37. O love (2:15): MP3
38. A Few of My Favorite Things in Allen Ginsberg (4:36): MP3
39. O America (2:24): MP3
40. O hope (2:28): MP3
41. From a Red 2008 Standard Diary (5:11): MP3
42. O holiday (2:17): MP3
43. O sandwich (2:10): MP3
44. From a Notebook of Titles: First Lines (4:04): MP3
45. O paunts (2:36): MP3
46. O aberrant phrases (4:01): MP3
47. U.S. News Headlines in 2010 (5:17): MP3
48. O lutta perpetua (3:17): MP3
49. O piecemeal eggs (3:26): MP3
50. O the fear (2:39): MP3
51. O relief (3:25): MP3
52. From a Red 2012 Standard Diary (4:50): MP3
53. O election (2:19): MP3
54. O face (2:49): MP3
55. Repeated Memories (4:42): MP3
56. O frogs (2:43): MP3
57. O cicadas (2:56): MP3
58. U.S. News Headlines in 2014 (6:42): MP3
59. O zero (2:49): MP3
60. O yes (2:24): MP3
61. People in Dreams (4:21): MP3
62. O bombs (2:15): MP3
63. O say (2:16): MP3
64. Memories of the Star-Spangled Banner (3:07): MP3
65. The Star-Spangled Banner (3:24): MP3
66. O Ornette (3:00): MP3
67. O Ornette (3:05): MP3
68. Donald Trump at the Republican Debate on August 6, 2015 (4:18): MP3
69. O The Star-Spangled Banner (3:51): MP3
70. O America (3:04): MP3
71. Voices at the End of Election Night on November 9, 2016 (6:34): MP3
72. O failure (2:54): MP3

Reading from The Mouth of the Bay, 2019

1. Elea (0:25): MP3
2. Blessed Is Failure (1:02): MP3
3. Last Thing (1:13): MP3
4. The Earth Is Held up by Nothing (2:11): MP3
5. The One Among the Many (0:55): MP3
6. The Earth Used to Be Covered with Water (0:16): MP3
7. The Blue and the Green (1:24): MP3
8. Purifications (3:06): MP3
9. The Pure (0:31): MP3
10. What Is This the Remnant Of? (0:58): MP3
11. Wretches, Stay Away from Beans (9:23): MP3
12. Further Reaches (8:29): MP3
13. There's No Beginning and There's No End (1:24): MP3
14. The Pure (1:13): MP3
15. We Only Perceive Our Bodies (4:06): MP3
16. Foghorn (1:30): MP3
17. Wave Talk (9:34): MP3
18. Raindrops on a Page (1:03): MP3
19. The Pure (2:14): MP3
20. There Are an Infinite Number of Worlds, Some Always Coming to Be, Some Always Perishing (5:41): MP3
21. Foghorn (1:10): MP3
22. Elements1 (0:22): MP3
23. Elements2 (1:11): MP3
24. Elements3 (1:07): MP3
25. Elements4 (2:34): MP3
26. Elements5 (2:00): MP3
27. Elements6 (0:26): MP3
28. Elements7 (2:51): MP3
29. Elements8 (3:18): MP3
30. Elements9 (1:06): MP3
31. Elements10 (1:07): MP3
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33. Elements12 (1:47): MP3
34. Elements13 (1:56): MP3
35. Elements14 (0:56): MP3
36. Elements15 (0:24): MP3
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38. Elements17 (0:21): MP3
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41. Elements20 (0:19): MP3
42. Elements21 (1:47): MP3
43. Elements22 (3:14): MP3
44. Elements23 (5:46): MP3
45. The Blue (2:10): MP3
46. Blue Fields (4:21): MP3
47. Distant Forhorn (3:11): MP3
48. Trance Position (8:40): MP3
49. Foghorn (1:41): MP3
50. Even Here (2:03): MP3
51. If We Could Do What the White Birds Do (0:49): MP3
52. Of Marsden Hartley (2:40): MP3
53. Distant Foghorn (2:00): MP3
54. Even Here (4:50): MP3
55. Purify Me (11:51): MP3
56. The Blue Water (7:04): MP3
57. Foghorn (3:48): MP3
58. Sounds of a Foggy Coast (2:44): MP3
59. The Day of the Moon (0:51): MP3
60. The Blue Compels (5:27): MP3
61. Distant Foghorn (1:48): MP3
62. Waves (3:38): MP3
63. The Flowing Blue (2:32): MP3
64. Foghorn (2:48): MP3
65. Clouds over Frenchman Bay (1:18): MP3
66. Foghorns and Waves (3:28): MP3
67. Clouds over Frenchman Bay (1:03): MP3
68. "All Our Senses Tell Us Is the World Contains Many Things in Motion" (1:52): MP3
69. Sounds of High Tide in the Fog (5:04): MP3

Reading from The Edge of the Underworld, 2019

1. Prologue (4:47): MP3
2. Sic Fatur Lacrimans (11:50): MP3
3. Sibilance (3:52): MP3
4. They're Their There (2:50): MP3
5. Among Senses (1:08): MP3
6. The Seal Wore Out (1:09): MP3
7. Tenebrous Children (2:31): MP3
8. Five Poems (7:05): MP3
9. Cape (2:25): MP3
10. Dusting the Urns (5:35): MP3
11. Verba Sancta (4:18): MP3
12. Polymorphous Perversity (1:43): MP3
13. Antistrophes (1:15): MP3
14. After the Time of Shared References (0:52): MP3
15. A Retrospective Glance (0:42): MP3
16. The Skeleton as a Work of Art (5:43): MP3
17. Epilogue (5:43): MP3

Reading at the 27th Subterranean Poetry Festival, September 10th, 2017, Rosendale, NY

Michael Ruby (11:53): MP3

Full Recording (23:06): MP3

Tracks from American Songbook (recorded 2013)

1. Pinchbacks—Take ’Em Away (1:55): MP3
2. Frosty Morning Blues (2:10): MP3
3. Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues (1:56): MP3
4. I’m on the Battlefield for My Lord (3:51): MP3
5. Keep on the Sunny Side (1:27): MP3
6. Waiting for a Train (1:51): MP3
7. Midnight Special (2:18): MP3
8. My Very Good Friend, the Milkman (1:45): MP3
9. They’re Red Hot (2:45): MP3
10. I’m a Gamblin' Woman (1:33): MP3
11. Blue Skies (2:37): MP3
12. A Brown Bird Singing (1:18): MP3
13. Prisoner of Love (1:29): MP3
14. Over the Rainbow (1:44): MP3
15. The Desert Blues (9:08): MP3
16. This Land Is Your Land (1:56): MP3
17. Gloomy Sunday (1:51): MP3
18. "Little White Flowers Will Never Awaken You" (2:35): MP3
19. Don't Explain (1:02): MP3
20. The Lord Followed Me (3:24): MP3
21. Summertime is Past and Gone (1:17): MP3
22. I Dreamed About Mama Last Night (2:20): MP3
23. Make Up Your Mind (1:43): MP3
24. In the Good Old Summertime (3:35): MP3
25. Nightmare (1:26): MP3
26. Folsom Prison Blues (1:47): MP3
27. Alright, OK, You Win (2:30): MP3
28. Love for Sale (3:04): MP3
29. Summertime (3:35): MP3
30. She's a Good 'Un (2:09): MP3
31. Nine Below Zero (1:12): MP3
32. Help Me (2:29): MP3
33. Where the Rio De Rosa Flows (1:53): MP3
34. Johnny B. Goode (2:47): MP3
35. Can't Help Falling in Love (2:09): MP3
36. How I Got Over (6:53): MP3
37. You've Got to Stand Your Test in Judgement (3:21): MP3
38. Walk in Jerusalem (2:54): MP3
39. In the Dark (3:37): MP3
40. It's a Pity (2:27): MP3
41. Something's Got a Hold on Me (1:41): MP3
42. A Change is Gonna Come (2:51) (2:07): MP3
43. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (1:59): MP3
44. You Keep Me Hangin' On (3:26): MP3
45. Cigarettes and Coffee (1:52): MP3
46. You Know, I Know (2:11): MP3
47. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again (3:40): MP3
48. People Are Strange (2:32): MP3
49. What a Wonderful World (2:42): MP3
50. I Don't Want No Woman (1:15): MP3
51. Insane Asylum (3:57): MP3
52. Ain't No Way (2:07): MP3
53. Crosstown Traffic (2:54): MP3
54. The Star-Spangled Banner (I) (3:09): MP3
55. The Star-Spangled Banner (II) (5:44): MP3
56. The Thrill is Gone (2:15): MP3
57. Coal Miner's Daughter (2:47): MP3
58. Walk Away (3:41): MP3
59. Little Girl Blue (4:32): MP3
60. Get It While You Can (3:58): MP3
61. Truckin' (2:03): MP3
62. What's Going On (1:42): MP3
63. Walk on the Wild Side (2:46): MP3
64. America the Beautiful (3:00): MP3
65. Midnight Train to Georgia (2:46): MP3
66. Badlands (2:51): MP3
67. Hot Stuff (2:36): MP3
68. Billie Jean (7:36): MP3
69. I Just Called to Say I Love You (2:00): MP3
70. Look at Little Sister (1:59): MP3
71. Come as You Are (2:58): MP3
72. Bad Love (3:09): MP3
73. Only God Can Judge Me (6:02): MP3
74. Hit 'Em Up (5:23): MP3
75. Life After Death Intro (2:40): MP3
76. Smooth (4:42): MP3

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• A Note About Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (4:28): MP3

1. Dread (4:14): MP3
2. Fields (8:03): MP3
3. Dreams (1:35): MP3
4. Dreams of Europe (0:31): MP3
5. Everyone Makes Up Stories Every Night (1:05): MP3
6. A Sleeper's Itinerary (3:19): MP3
7. The Morals of Dreams (2:38): MP3
8. Fleeting Memories (2:16): MP3
9. Stuck in Transition (2:34): MP3
10. Dim Lessons (2:08): MP3
11. Family Problems (2:13): MP3
12. The Disequilibrists (2:21): MP3
13. A Cure for Headaches (1:22): MP3
14. Incisions (1:24): MP3
15. To Not (1:38): MP3
16. Fatalism (1:26): MP3
17. The Millennium (1:20): MP3
18. Still Stuck (1:16): MP3
19. Old Woldinorum (1:53): MP3
20. Fatality (6:52): MP3
21. Compulsive Words (3:33): MP3
22. Beginnings, Middles and Ends (1:53): MP3
23. A Body (3:24): MP3
24. Dance of the Chance Automata (4:30): MP3
25. The Star-Spangled Banner (2:14): MP3
26. Titles & First Lines (6:20): MP3
27. What Has Changed? (1:54): MP3
28. I Can't Change (1:29): MP3
29. After Another Absence (1:31): MP3
30. So Much (0:30): MP3
31. Almost Forever (2:26): MP3
32. Tue. (1:46): MP3
33. Too (2:10): MP3
34. Tu (0:43): MP3
35. Even You (4:07): MP3

From Radio Poetique presents Poetic Brooklyn, May 24th, 2004

• Among the Crepusculars (3:52): MP3
• Only on Tuesday (4:52): MP3
• Before; Text for Kupka's "Black and White Abstraction" (4:01): MP3
• First Names (3:23): MP3
• Among Senses (1:38): MP3
• Glimpsed from a Car; The Train in the Distance (2:55): MP3
• Pinchbacks – Take 'Em Away (for Bessie Smith) (4:19): MP3

Interview with Susan Brennan (1:11:57): MP3

Monday Night Series: Tracy Blackmer, Michael Ruby, St. Mark's Church, NY, May 8, 2000

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (47:45): link
2. Side B (48:24): link

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © Michael Ruby 2015. Distributed by PennSound.