Susan Stewart

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, May 20, 2004

Program One: Reading

1. Sung from the generation of Air (5:15): MP3
2. Apple (3:52): MP3
3. Bees (1:38): MP3
4. Braid (2:32): MP3
5. Dark the Star (0:21): MP3
6. Ellipse (4:02): MP3
7. Two Brief Views of Hell (2:56): MP3
8. What You Said About the Moon (0:42): MP3
9. Pear (2:04): MP3
10. The Rose (1:30): MP3
11. Scarecrow (2:01): MP3
12. from Lessons From Television (2:07): MP3
13. Lost Rules of Usage (1:08): MP3
14. Wings (1:37): MP3
15. X/Cross (0:16): MP3
16. To You and for You (2:10): MP3
17. Zero (0:26): MP3

Program Two: Conversation

Complete conversation (43:08): MP3

Producer: Charles Bernstein
Recording Engineers: Chris Mustazza and Julie Sheets

1. Milano era asfalto, asfalto liquefatto. Nel deserto / Milan was asphalt, liquid asphalt. In the desert (0:44): MP3
2. Non è più dato. Il pianto che si trasformava / Nothing more can be done. The crying that turned (0:49): MP3
3. Tutto era già in cammino. Da allora a qui. Tutto / Everything was already on its way. From then to here. All (0:56): MP3
4. Quando su un volto desiderato si scorge il segno / When on a beloved face you catch a glimpse of the sign (0:34): MP3

da Quell'andarsene nel buio dei cortili (2010)

5. Era buio. Il centro di agosto era buio / It was dark. August was dark at its center (0:34): MP3
6. Ho saputo, amica mia, / I found out, my friend (0:33): MP3
7. Ecco l'acrobata della notte, il corpo / Here is night's acrobat, the body (0:23): MP3
8. È tardi / It's late (0:38): MP3

da Incontri e agguati (2015) [New translations]

9. Vicino alla morte tutto è presente / In death's vicinity everything is present (0:25): MP3
10. Non puoi immaginare, amico mio, quate cose / You can't imagine, my friend, how many things (0:25): MP3
11. Morirai invaso dalle domande / You will die invaded by questions (0:19): MP3

1. Introduction (3:02): MP3
2. Field in Winter (1:23): MP3
3. Pine (3:25): MP3
4. A Language (3:25): MP3
5. Inscriptions for Gas Pump TVs (1:01): MP3
6. Piano Music for a Silent Movie (3:10): MP3
7. Atavistic Sonnet (1:21): MP3
8. Two Poems on the Name of Vermeer: Toward the Lake & From the Lake (3:03): MP3
9. Four Lack Songs (1:07): MP3
10. A Clown (4:50): MP3
11. The Knot (1:03): MP3
12. If You Were One of the Travelers, the Guests (4:23): MP3
13. Field in Spring (0:49): MP3

Complete reading (33:54): MP3

Chinese American Association for Poetry and Poetics Conference, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, June 8, 2013

The Forest (04:20): MP3

Reading on The Life of Poetry Program on WHYY Philadelphia, April 6, 2010

1. The Owl (2:45): MP3
After reading "The Owl" Susan discusses how the poem touches on the feeling of mystery associated with an actual experience.

2. Moon at Morning (1:25): MP3
After reading "Moon at Morning" Susan explains that she wrote the poem for a book about the moon by Enid Mark.

A Celebration of Nation Book Critics' Circle Award Winners, Kelly Writers House, April 15, 2004

Complete recording: MP3

Old English Live: Reading of Old English and Old English-inspired poems at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2003

With Herman Beavers, Bob Perelman, Kathy Lou Schultz, George Economou, Greg Djanikian, Emily Steiner, and Susan Stewart

Complete recording (1:22:23): MP3

Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics, presented by the Kelly Writers House and the Institute of Contemporary Art, October 17-18, 2003

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4Plus, SUNY Buffalo, September 26, 1999

Reading on PhillyTalks Episode #11 with Bob Perelman, April 22, 1999

Unknown Reading

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