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Cole Swensen
photograph courtesy of Kaplan Harris
PoemTalk #52, discussing Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers," May 3, 2012
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.
Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, March 11, 2017
- Jocelyn Spaar’s Introduction (03:21): MP3
- About On Walking On (00:41): MP3
- Rousseau: The Reveries Of A Solitary Walker (01:51): MP3
- Thoreau: Walking (01:36): MP3
- Sand: Promenades Autour d’un village (01:22): MP3
- Woolf: “Street Haunting” (01:45): MP3
- Walser: The Walk (01:20): MP3
- Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (01:23): MP3
- Robertson: “Seven Walks” (02:14): MP3
- On Karen Randall’s The Leyden Jar Project (01:10): MP3
- Thunderhouses (00:43): MP3
- The Leyden Jar (00:54): MP3
- The Kite (01:12): MP3
- Beatification (00:35): MP3
- The Electric Fortune Teller (00:47): MP3
- Montgolfière Balloon (01:12): MP3
- The Electric Kiss (01:10): MP3
- Gave (01:15): MP3
- Complete Recording (27:59): MP3
Reading for Double Change, Paris, December 20, 2010
- Introduction and discussion of the Le Notre Gardens (5:12): MP3
- Brief note on the style of A Garden Is a Start (1:40): MP3
- A Garden Is a Start (3:12): MP3
- Discussion of the language of fact in poetry (8:05): MP3
- Paradise (0:56): MP3
- Discussion of gardens as dominion over nature (2:43): MP3
- Discussion of the geometry of the Le Notre gardens (3:38): MP3
- If a Garden of Numbers (1:23): MP3
- Introductory discussion to Versailles the
Unfurled (2:53): MP3
- Versailles the Unfurled (3:56): MP3
- Dicussion of fountains and water as a public and private commdity (5:42): MP3
- Keeping Track of Distance (with a brief introduction) (1:40): MP3
- Closing comments (2:04): MP3
Complete Reading (43:03): MP3
"If a Garden of Numbers" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 52.
Reading as part of the Holloway Series, Berkeley, February 20, 2007
- Introduction (1:38): MP3
- Complete reading (41:15): MP3
- Questions (9:49): MP3
- Complete reading (6:12): MP3
- Introduction (03:28): MP3
- The Baroque Garden (00:55): MP3
- The Garden As Middle Ages (01:09): MP3
- On Vaux-le-Vicomte (00:28): MP3
- Further Notes on the Collusion of Time and Space (01:52): MP3
- If A Garden Of Numbers (01:21): MP3
- Vaux-le-Vicomte, Water (01:22): MP3
- Into Mirror Enter Air (00:51): MP3
- Labyrinths And Mazes (01:29): MP3
- Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) (01:31): MP3
- Euclid’s Eighth Theorem (01:10): MP3
- The Hand As Historical (00:39): MP3
- Hold (00:38): MP3
- Juggle (00:43): MP3
- The Hand As Anchor (00:28): MP3
- The Hand That Caresses (00:46): MP3
- The Hand As Origami ((00:27): MP3
- The Hand As Ideogram: MP3
- The Thumb: Based On (00:50): MP3
- The Intern’s Problem (00:56): The Intern's Problem
- The Fist (00:21): MP3
- Complete reading (24:43): MP3
"If a Garden of Numbers" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 52.
- Introduction (2:13): MP3
- Complete reading (16:10): MP3
- Introduction (1:25): MP3
- How Photography Has Changed the Human Face (4:58): MP3
- Water Water (4:34): MP3
- A Thousand Ghost Stories About My Grandfather (1:45): MP3
- Is (2:40): MP3
- Blind Spot (3:03): MP3
- March 3 (2:23): MP3
- March: The Third Lesson (0:47): MP3
- March 15: Nocturne (0:46): MP3
- March 25, 1472-75: The Annunciation, Leonardo da Vinci (1:35): MP3
- May 30, 1427: Joan-not-yet-saint with Sheep (1:33): MP3
- August 1424: The First Dance Macabre (1:43): MP3
- August 1427: Abundance (1:13): MP3
- October 4, 1451: Paolo Uccello Examines the Sky (1:50): MP3
- October 28, 1449: The Translation of the Relics of St. Jean in Anticipation of the End of the Hundred Years' War (1:17): MP3
Complete reading (30:21): MP3
Wednesday Series: Cole Swenson and Linh Dinh, St. Mark’s Church, NY, January 27, 1999
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (49:00): link
- Side B (49:14): link
Appearing at the New Coast Festival, New Freedoms, April 9, 1993
- Swensen reading (14:12): MP3
- Complete Recording (1:57:29): MP3
New Coast Reading, Buffalo, April 1, 1993
- Complete reading (18:45): MP3
- Somewhere (1:19): MP3
- Introductions to ‘Parks’ (1:16): MP3
- Six (0:21): MP3
- Eleven (0:24): MP3
- Fourteen (0:51): MP3
- Seventeen (0:10): MP3
- Six (1:14): MP3
- Eleven (1:07): MP3
- Fourteen (0:51): MP3
- Seventeen (0:52): MP3
- First (0:53): MP3
- One (0:31): MP3
- Thirteen (0:30): MP3
- Immediacy(0:56): MP3
- Garden (0:39): MP3
- Window (0:57): MP3
- Galleries (0:57): MP3
- Anamism (0:49): MP3
- Tourism (1:02): MP3
- A Theory of the Face (0:52): MP3
- Picture of Fire (0:44): MP3
- How Vast the Music is (1:15): MP3
- The Ones that are the Same (0:45): MP3
Reading for Incognito Lounge at Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, October 3, 1991
- Complete reading (28:14): MP3
- Opening Remarks (0:52): MP3
- Three (1:08): MP3
- Six (1:06): MP3
- Seven (0:54): MP3
- Eleven (1:04): MP3
- Thirteen (0:58): MP3
- Sixteen (0:39): MP3
- Introduction to Oar (0:32): MP3
- Oar (0:32): MP3
- A Ghazal and a Precesion (0:43): MP3
- The Ghazal of Enough Time (0:40): MP3
- Ghazal of Many Edges (0:43): MP3
- A Ghazal Suspended at Night (0:29): MP3
- A Ghazal for Recent Ships (0:36): MP3
- Ghazal of Where We’ve Gone (0:43): MP3
- Cathedral (0:43): MP3
- An Insomniac Does All Walk Through Hallways (0:39): MP3
- Hazal Photographing Fire (0:43): MP3
- Last (0:47): MP3
- The Other War (1:00): MP3
- Watching (0:30): MP3
- Fan (1:16): MP3
- Tracing (0:53): MP3
- Still a Narrative(1:07): MP3
- Irrevoke (0:47): MP3
- Tourism (1:19): MP3
- Delta(0:36): MP3
- Took(1:12): MP3
- Running Water (0:52): MP3
- Now my Uncle Talks to Himself(1:14): MP3
- Line (0:36): MP3
- How Vast Music is (2:16): MP3
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