Rosmarie Waldrop

Close Listening
Art International Radio, operating at ArtonAir.org, November 5, 2009

• Program 1: reading "Holderlin Hybrids" from Blindsight (New Directions, 2004) (34:28): MP3
• Program 2: conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:51): MP3

PoemTalk #141, Discussing Rosmarie Waldrop's "Memory Tree," feat. Laynie Brown, Kate Colby, and Mónica de la Torre

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk #47, Discussing Rosmarie Waldrop's "Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence," November 10, 2011

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Reading with Laynie Browne at Kate Colby's home in Providence, RI, March 5, 2019

• Introduction by Lee Ann Brown
• Complete recording (19:06): MP3
• Video mirror: Media.SAS server

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, November 6, 2014

Complete reading (40:23): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 8, 2011

• Complete reading (23:17): MP3

Reading with Keith Waldrop at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2009

• Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (3:48): MP3
• Sarah Dowling Introduces Rosmarie Waldrop (2:58): MP3
• Rosmarie Waldrop's Set (15:51): MP3
1. Lawn of Excluded Middle (from Curves to the Apple) (7:57): MP3
2. Time Ravel (7:54): MP3


• Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop read "Light Travels" (4:22): MP3
• Sarah Dowling Introduces Keith Waldrop (1:35): MP3
• Keith Waldrop Reads from The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (23:58): MP3

Complete reading (52:42): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, May 8, 2008

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Reading for Double Change, Paris, May 6-7, 2008

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 16, 2006

1. Introduction (3:26): MP3
2. I had inferred from pictures ... (excerpt from The Reproduction of Profiles) (4:05): MP3
3. Feverish Propositions (4:26): MP3
4. Zero, the Corrosive Number (3:01): MP3
5. Vanishing Point (2:55): MP3
6. Inventions of Infinity (3:42): MP3
7. Bank Money (2:58): MP3
8. Cyclops Eye (3:47): MP3

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with host Leonard Schwartz, January 24, 2004

1. Introduction by Leonard Schwartz (1:05): MP3
2. Discussing Edmond Jabès and Judaism (5:00): MP3
3. Jabès and experience with persecution (1:49): MP3
4. "At the Threshold of the Book," from The Book of Questions (3:59): MP3
5. Schwartz reading from Section 5 of The Book of Questions, and Jabès' idea of the "book" (2:53): MP3
6. Derrida's view of Jabès (1:14): MP3
7. Waldrop's relationship with Jabès (2:34): MP3
8. Discussing A Key Into the Language of America (3:38): MP3
9. Chapter 23: On Marriage (1:54): MP3
10. Final Chapter: On Death and Burial (2:51): MP3
11. Waldrop discussing her current work (2:17): MP3

Reading for Belladonna* Reading Series, NYC, May 31, 2002

Complete reading (27:50): MP3

Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001

1. Introduction (3:23): MP3
2. The Thread of the Sentence (1:56): MP3
3. Object Relations (1:54): MP3
4. Normal Disturbances (2:27): MP3
5. The Depressive Position (1:48): MP3
6. Like Horses on the Parthenon (2:05): MP3
7. Intentionalities (2:19): MP3
8. Steps in Integration (2:07): MP3
9. Hallucinatory Gratifications (2:09): MP3

Reading with Keith Waldrop

10. Light Travels (3:47): MP3

Reading in Buffalo, NY, 1997

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, December 12, 1992

• Complete recording (25:18): MP3

Reading at the University of Buffalo, November 11, 1992

1. Introduction by Peter Gizzi (3:18): MP3
2. Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence (2:18): MP3 [text]
3. Shorter American Memory of Salem (0:40): MP3
4. Shorter American Memory of the American Character According to Santayana (2:00): MP3 [text]
5. Discussion of A Key Into the Language of America (4:14): MP3

from A Key Into the Language of America

6. Chapter One: Salutations (1:40): MP3
7. Chapter Two: Of Eating and Entertainment (1:43): MP3
8. Chapter Three: Concerning Sleepe and Lodging (1:24): MP3
9. Chapter Four: Of Their Numbers (1:30): MP3
10. Chapter Five: Of Their Relations of Consanguinitie and Affinitie, or Blood and Marriage (1:50): MP3
11. Chapter Six: Of the Family and Businesse of the House (2:28): MP3
12. Chapter Seven: Of Their Persons and Parts of the Body (1:32): MP3
13. Chapter Eight: Of Discourse and News (2:05): MP3
14. Chapter Nine: Of the Time of Day (1:25): MP3
15. Chapter Ten: Of the Season of the Year (1:33): MP3
16. Chapter Eleven: Of Travell (1:37): MP3
17. Chapter Twelve: Concerning the Heavens and Heavenly Lights (1:31): MP3
18. Chapter Thirteen: Of the Weather (1:31): MP3
19. Chapter Sixteen: Of the Earth and the Fruits Thereof (1:41): MP3
20. Chapter Twenty: Of Their Nakednesse and Clothing (1:36): MP3
21. Chapter Twenty One: Of Religion, The Soule (2:02): MP3
22. Chapter Twenty Nine: Of Their Warre (1:52): MP3
23. Chapter Thirty Two: Of Death and Buriall (2:06): MP3

"Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 47

Reading at the Centre international de poésie Marseille, November 1991

The Senses Fail Me, or the Necessity of Life (5:49): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo c. April 13, 1988

1. on Shorter American Memory (1:21): MP3
2. Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence (1:23): MP3
3. Shorter American Memory of Money, Science and the City (2:24): MP3
4. Shorter American Memory of the American Character according to Santayana (2:19): MP3
5. on "Differences for Four Hands" (2:46): MP3
6. from "Differences for Four Hands" (16:10): MP3

Complete reading (27:14): MP3 (cuts off at end with intro of The Reproduction of Profiles)

"Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 47

Politics of Poetic Form, New School, NYC, November 18, 1988

• Reading (1:13:53): MP3
• Discussion (46:36): MP3

Reading for Live at the Ear, December 15, 1984

Reading English translations of Edmond Jabès, with Jerome Rothenberg, March 13, 1983

Via the UCSD Library Digital Collections.

Side A:

Side B:

Reading English translations of Edmond Jabès, for New Writing Series, UCSD, March 9, 1983

Introduction by David Crowne. Via the UCSD Library Digital Collections.

Part 1, Side A:

Part 1, Side B:

Part 2, Side A:

Rosmarie Waldrop on PennSound Daily

• November 18, 2009: "Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop: Kelly Writers House Reading and New Close Listening Programs"

Interview and Reading at the Kelly Writers House, Date Unknown

• Complete recording (38:18): MP3

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