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Peter Lamborn Wilson

All recordings by Chris Funkhouser.


Reading at Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY, February 7, 2015

Complete reading (17:58): MP3

Reading at Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock, NY, July 11, 2015

Complete recording (34:23): MP3

Reading with Charles Stein at the Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY, April 3, 2016

  • Peter Lamborn Wilson (24:52): MP3
  • Charles Stein (34:12): MP3

Introduction by Tamas Panitz.

Reading Hoodoo Metaphysics, Saugerties, NY, July 15, 2019

Complete recording (1:28:04): MP3




Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, 2015

In the spring of 2015 Chris Funkhouser traveled to the Woodstock, NY home of Peter Lamborn Wilson for a series of nine recording sessions. The results of those efforts — split into twenty sets in total — can be found below. Start times for individual poems within each set can be found in curly brackets, while page numbers corresponding to this 2014 collection of Wilson's unpublished poems are found in square brackets. Listeners will want to consult Funkhouser's notes on his recordings, "Peter Lamborn Wilson: A PennSound Archive," published at Jacket2.

You can use the links below to navigate to individual sessions:

April 10th   |   April 16th   |   April 20th   |   April 25th   |   April 30th   |   May 7th   |   May 20th   |   May 28th   |   June 5th


Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, April 10, 2015

Set 1 (2:31): MP3

  • Thomas Weelkes [Weelkes' "Thule" and his sonnet in response; ms p. 123]. {00:32; 01:38}

Set 2 (34:33): MP3

  • ("Moribund New Brunkswick NJ with its infinite palette...") [p. 124] {00:10}
  • ("I could be the whacked-out Dante for all the...") (ghazal) [125] {00:55}
  • POGO [126] {02:01}
  • ("Illuminati?...") [127] {02:42}
  • ("In the right place but the wrong dimension...") [128] {02:56}
  • ("You too can be Washington Irving...") [129] {3:27}
  • ("Poetry in motion:...") [130] {4:12}
  • HAIKU [131] {4:35}
  • ("The Sun without its spots would be like...") (ghazal) [132] {4:53}
  • ("Blonde limp hermaphroditic sonnets...") [133] {5:46}
  • ("The first australopithecine to use language...") (quatrain) [134] {6:36}
  • ("Books got us into this mess & books...") (quatrain) [135] {6:58}
  • ("Armigerous weed of the weak is lifted aloft...") (pseudo-sonnet) [136] {7:30}
  • ("Come out cried the Come-Outers...") (pseudo-sonnet) [137] {8:36}
  • ("Evangels are the words of angels...") [138] {9:36}
  • ("The messiah already always arriving...") (sonnet) [139] {10:30}
  • ("Everyone from Krazy Kat to my...") [140] {11:31}
  • ("In the umbrage of Jaantar Mantaar...") [141] {12:10}
  • ("Could Science ever have...") [142] {13:10}
  • "CONCEPTUAL INSTALLATION" (sonnet) [143] {13:48}
  • HAIKU [144] {15:36}
  • GHAZAL FOR A LUNAR ECLIPSE [145] {16:04}
  • ("Anticipation of violets & lilacs...") [146] {17:29}
  • CANNABILOPOLIS (sonnet) [147] {18:02}
  • COMMENT ON SOME STUPID ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS [148] {19:13}
  • RIDDLE [149] {20:02}
  • COLD FREAK [150] {21:01}
  • FBI FILE (slogans) [93] {23:43}
  • ("Amathystine grass like characters drawn by...") (quatrain) [151] {24:59}
  • AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION (ghazal) [152] {25:48}
  • ("Inside every poet a shoe salesman...") (sonnet) [154] {27:05}
  • ARITHMOSOPHY (sonnet) [155] {27:59}
  • TOMBSTONES OF THE BOG-O-MILS [156] {29:22}
  • ("Before Adam delved & Eve span...") (quatrain) [157] {32:08}
  • ("You know from yr own life how...") (sonnet) [153] {32:31}
  • ("The Vesper candles are cold...") [158] {33:20}
  • GREEN SNAIL SPRING [159] {33:59}

Set 3 (7:09): MP3

  • HYPNEROTOMACHIA [160] {00:01}
  • ("The garden possesses an address—you could...") (quatrain) [161] {01:10}
  • ("Rain rustles in giant nurse's skirts...") (sonnet) [162] {01:35}
  • EDUCATION (slogans) [163] {02:35}
  • ("Samurai with a watermelon...") [164] {02:51}
  • ("Joe Miller (1684-1738) The Joke Book...") (sonnet) [165] {03:48}
  • LOCUSTS (sonnet) [166] {04:49}
  • ("Stolen money is somehow freed of its...") (quatrain) [167] {05:58}
  • ("We're looking for glamourie of...") [168] {06:22}
  • ("All readings of Nietzsche are misreadings...") (quatrain) [169] {06:51}

Set 4 (25:02): MP3

  • ("Zing crash boom—frog in a tweed jacket...") (sonnet) [170] {00:03}
  • ESP [171] {01:02}
  • OLD MR BOSTON'S BOOK OF THE DEAD [172] {01:47}
  • ("'There are some things Man was not meant to know...'") (sonnet) [173] {02:40}
  • ("The beach will solace us with...") (pseudo-sonnet) [174] {03:39}
  • ("One of the Eugenicists (Davenport?) posited...") (sonnet) [175] {04:36}
  • ("What pale-blooded American adolescent aesthete...") (sonnet) [176] {07:11}
  • ("Animals are paranoid because they have no police...") (quatrain) [178] {08:14}
  • ("We envy you your Arthurian mulch...") (sonnet) [179] {08:38}
  • ("In order to function at all we must envision...") (sonnet) [180] {09:42}
  • ("The pall of Monday at the edge of the known world...") (quatrain) [181] {10:49}
  • ("Rain functions as heraldic device...") (sonnet) [177] {11:32}
  • ("Just another wrinkle in the...") (sonnet) [182] {12:24}
  • NEPENTHE [183] {13:24}
  • ("The calendar is the oldest ideology, older than the...") (quatrain) [184] {14:33}
  • ("Atlantis was actually New Jersey...") (sonnet) [185] {14:59}
  • ("Nietzsche would've disapproved of April Fools' Day...") (sonnet) [186] {15:56}
  • ("A species that invents the picnic can't be...") [187] {16:52}
  • Opium Dens I Have Known, Parts 1-7 {17:44}
    1. "Rashid Bhai's..." {17:58}
    2. "Mr Fong's..." {18:34}
    3. "Khan Baba's..." {19:23}
    4. "Herat..." {20:22}
    5. "In Iran..." {21:35}
    6. "In the early 80s..." {23:12}
    7. "This turned out..." {23:55}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, April 16, 2015

Set 1 (30:43): MP3

  • ("Secrecy's an animal trait, every fox's burrow...") (ghazal) [432] {00:06}
  • ("Large dogs & human babies...") (pseudo-sonnet) [433] {01:16}
  • ("Take a bleak loading dock...") (sonnet) [434] {02:26}
  • ("The lure of raw brut outsider art ...") [435] {03:15}
  • FAIRY ARCHAEOLOGY [436] {03:53}
  • ("Gee, what...") (quatrain) [437] {04:49}
  • "AH" (sonnet) [438] {05:10}
  • ("Decided...") [439] {06:19}
  • JULY 4 '05 (pseudo-sonnet) [440] {06:42}
  • ("Birds believe in the...") [441] {07:50}
  • ("Fireflies emblematize the...") (sonnet) [442] {08:13}
  • ("We pass this way but once—...") [443] {09:08}
  • CHANGES (sonnet) [444] {09:20}
  • TAKE US TO YOUR LEDA (quatrain) [445] {10:16}
  • ("When comes the next swan-boat...") [446] {10:45}
  • AGRONAUT (sonnet) [447] {11:29}
  • ("Dante & Dor do Dexedrine...") [448] {13:11}
  • ("O Tropics we'll make you...") (sonnet) [449] {13:57}
  • ("Vegetables undergo slow but observable...") [450] {14:43}
  • ("Commentary on 'Mutual Stealing Among the Three Powers'...") (sonnet) [451] {15:50}
  • OLD INDIA HANDS [452] {17:27}
  • A XTIAN POEM FOR THE LATE IRA COHEN [454] {19:47}
  • ("Escapism = Resistance...") [455] {20:52}
  • ("Temporary Ruins...") (graffiti) [456] {21:26}
  • ("Another but naturally inadequate trans-...") [457] {21:47}
  • ("Wet streets...") (sonnet) [458] {22:21}
  • THEORIA (sonnet) [459] {23:18}
  • HARMONIAL INSTASONNET (sonnet) [460] {24:19}
  • ("Perhaps we are meant to consume our world...") (quatrain) [461] {25:23}
  • NON-JURING INSTASONNET (sonnet) [462] {25:49}
  • ANOTHER MILLION DOLLAR IDEA [463] {26:49}
  • MERE REPORTAGE (sonnet) [464] {27:46}
  • ("'Edwardian'—...") [465] {28:54}
  • INSTASONNET FOR THE DEAD [466] {29:17}
    • Set 2 (19:58): MP3

      • STARRY WISDOM SECT TRACT #21 (sonnet) [467] {00:02}
      • ("Verse is burglary...") (sonnet) [468] {01:02}
      • DIRT (sonnet) [469] {02:00}
      • A DAY'S WORK FOR YVAN GOLL (sonnet) [470] {03:17}
      • ("A Guarantee...") (sonnet) [471] {05:30}
      • ("Real shepherds don't write pastoral hexameters ...") (sonnet) [472] {06:21}
      • JANUS (sonnet) [473] {07:14}
      • SALVAGE (sonnet) [474] {08:18}
      • ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS (sonnet) [475] {09:22}
      • ("Tenderness that can only be known...") (ghazal or sonnet) [476] {10:26}
      • RAINBOW (quatrain) [477] {11:09}
      • " 'AIR-QUOTES' " (sonnet) [478] {11:52}
      • OLD SAWS FOR THREE MAGI (ghazal) [479] {12:52}
      • ("Save the phenomena...") (sonnet) [480] {13:37}
      • DOVE-O-GRAM (sonnet) [481] {14:29}
      • ("What can't be raised to the neo-...") (sonnet) [482] {15:21}
      • ("I've caught a disease called poetry...") (ghazal) [483] {16:27}
      • SCATOLOGICAL RITES OF ALL NATIONS or, THE LOO TABOO (sonnet) [484] {17:35}
      • SEMI-AUTOMATIC TEXT [485] {18:30}

      Set 3 (5:18): MP3

      • FOR PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT [486] {00:01}
      • TWELVE STEPS TO HELL [489] {03:31}
      • PLANCHETTE (sonnet) [490] {04:22}

      Set 4 (15:55): MP3

      • WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED [551] {00:05}
      • POSTCARD [552] {01:14}
      • BYRONIC STANZA [553] {02:24}
      • SEUMAS CALLS ON CELLPHONE FROM HILL OF TARA [554] {03:12}
      • DOG LAW [555] {03:56}
      • ("Poverty-stricken old genteel ladies used to...") (quatrain) [556] {04:27}
      • ("On the other hand, professor...") (sonnet) [557] {04:54}
      • YOUNG GERMANY (review of the book by Walter Laquer) [558] {05:43}
      • LO [559] {06:49}
      • ("'The storm has passed' means...") [560] {07:33}
      • ("We never admit our pariah status...") [561] {08:12}
      • EXEGESIS OF REAL ESTATE MAG [562] {08:46}
      • MENE, MENE...UH, WHATEVER [564] {10:40}
      • ("As the servant class withers away will...") [565] {11:43}
      • ("Comrade Muses allow us to report production has reached...") (prose paragraph) [566] {12:45}
      • ("Like brick through plates...") [567] {13:53}
      • ("It seems the local catbird...") (haiku) [568] {14:44}
      • ("Bluebells or a closely related species...") (sonnet) [569] {15:05}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, April 20, 2015

Set 1 (43:33): MP3

  • ("Countless times...") [570] {00:03}
  • ("It wld be better not to know but we know...") (sonnet) [571] {01:53}
  • ZARATHUSTRA'S REVENGE (sonnet) [491] {02:53}
  • ("Winter is our politics...") (sonnet) [492] {04:03}
  • ("Suddenly the door bursts open...") (sonnet) [493] {04:55}
  • ("Amongst the indigo Saharans...") [494] {05:51}
  • ("Chiaroscuro...") [495] {06:32}
  • ("Hero of my own gothick novel...") [496] {07:08}
  • ("Hermeneutical exegesis of any map...") (sonnet) [497] {08:16}
  • ("Always winter always Epiphany...") (sonnet) [498] {09:20}
  • ARKTOS [499] {10:05}
  • THREE YET-TO-BE-WRITTEN PhD THESES [500] {11:35}
  • ("Of course like all Americans I feel...") [501] {12:21}
  • COARSENED MIRACLES (sonnet) 502] {13:37}
  • CREAM OF SAPPHIRE [503] {14:54}
  • NITE [504] {15:57}
  • SECTION OF AN ODE TO WINTER (sonnet) [506] {17:57}
  • TO ARTAUD [507] {18:58}
  • ARION [509] {20:38}
  • LOST GOSPEL [511] {21:58}
  • BAD WINTER [512] {23:05}
  • "NATURE POET" [513] {24:12}
  • ALL-NITE DINER [5] {26:26}
  • ("The dull day absolves from responsibilities...") [13] {31:21}
  • WINTER IN AMERICA [516] {32:02}
  • ("Solitude & sorrow...") [517] {32:49}
  • ("Say Lord Dunsany...") [518] {33:16}
  • ("The person you were meant to meet is slippery...") (sonnet) [519] {34:07}
  • ("Easy enough to dispel dark superstition with the glaring blare...") (prose paragraph) [520] {35:00}
  • DOSSIER (sonnet) [521] {36:21}
  • ("Cold Mountain...") [522] {37:27}
  • ("Serious books...") [523] {38:56}
  • HAIKU [524] {39:33}
  • ("Winter take us...") [525] {39:59}
  • ("Give each ghost its voice or vice...") [526] {40:38}
  • HAIKU [527] {41:16}
  • ("Go talk to caged beasts about...") [528] {41:44}

Set 2 (17:53): MP3

  • ("Winter just portentously left...") [530] {00:01}
  • ("Be silent & dare...") [531] {01:20}
  • PROSE [532] {01:55}
  • BUMPERSTICKER [533] {04:29}
  • ("The thought of going luddite fills me with a lust...") (prose paragraph) [534] {04:42}
  • ("On the good ship...") [535] {05:51}
  • ("Can we speak of a dandyism of the dull?...") (prose paragraph) [536] {06:35}
  • ("Everyone knows what that life...") [537] {07:36}
  • ("Who coined the term...' air-conditioned ruins'?...") (prose paragraph) [538] {08:19}
  • ("When did it become obligatory to genuflect & murmur...") (prose paragraph) [539] {09:12}
  • ("Slanting sun hits river at angle projecting shimmering light...") (prose paragraph) [540] {10:14}
  • SUBLIMATION [541] {11:07}
  • ("Even these words will cool your brow...") (quatrain) [542] {12:03}
  • ("To smell & taste the true spices...") (sonnet) [543] {12:27}
  • MAUDITS (sonnet) [544] {13:17}
  • CHIMERA (sonnet) [545] {14:10}
  • ("Bluebells might...") (haiku) [546] {15:07}
  • BOXEO [547] {15:28}
  • ("Welcome to the roadside chapel...") [549] {16:52}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, April 25, 2015

Set 1 (20:53): MP3

  • WHAT EXACTLY IS JOE PYE WEED? [415] {00:01}
  • BUMPERSTICKER [416] {00:33}
  • SECRETS OF THE SERAPEUM [393] {00:41}
  • BUMPERSTICKER [424] {01:54}
  • ("The local paper warns of new...") [425] {02:06}
  • ("Don't push it don't popularize it don't massify it...") (prose paragraph) [429] {02:50}
  • ("My enemies...") [375] {03:49}
  • ("A secret buoyancy...") [376] {04:27}
  • ("We shld cherish our amateur status...") [382] {04:56}
  • ("By a slight shift it would be easy...") [401] {05:35}
  • ("In Büchner's Death of Danton...") [403] {06:35}
  • ETHICAL BIND [405] {07:11}
  • ("Deep in the subbasement our ideologue...") [419] {08:05}
  • ("'Under the Pavement, the Beach'") [422] {09:04}
  • ("How local is a breeze?...") [423] {09:50}
  • CATALPA [426] {10:42}
  • ("Catbird takes...") [427] {11:18}
  • ("We need a...") [430] {11:39}
  • RHIZOMES [370] {12:29}
  • NIHIL OBSTAT [372] {14:06}
  • RESTITUTION [379] {15:18}
  • CASTING RUNES [380] {16:44}
  • ("The caged bird formulates no hypotheses...") [383] {19:03}
  • POEM WITHOUT FOOTNOTES [386] {19:54}
    • Set 2 (10:55): MP3

      • ("Schizophrenically unsatiated with...") [388] {00:01}
      • ("Ah the inflation of ego—streaming...") [389] {01:03}
      • ("At last evening light...") (pseudo haiku [390] {02:13}
      • GEDANKENEXPERIMENT [392] {02:40}
      • ("It's always a 'greasy' pack of cards...") [396] {04:05}
      • GRANDMA DUCK NEW AGE AVATAR [399] {05:48}
      • BOVINA, NY [400] {06:40}
      • ("This is the ghazal of the here & now &...") (ghazal) [404] {07:34}
      • CLASSIFIED AD [407] {08:49}
      • ("Squalid in greasy kitchen Sweeny ...") [408] {10:15}

      Set 3 (27:06): MP3

      • AUTOCEPHALOUS [409] {00:00}
      • ("Not everyone's lucky enough to have...") [411] {01:46}
      • ("What with crow, ice, snow & sun...") (sonnet) [406] {02:38}
      • PEAR CIDER [413] {03:36}
      • IRRESPONSIBLE TOMBEAU FOR BRAD WILL [231] {04:54}
      • ("Launching of the AVATAR...") [232] {06:05}
      • ("We insist on a certain kind of...") (quatrain) [233] {06:58}
      • ("God or the Devil is in the details...") (quatrain) [234] {07:25}
      • ("A day lost in lethargy & mooning...") (sonnet) [235] {07:51}
      • MATURE ARTISTS STEAL [236] {08:53}
      • ("Weather condition as psychic skin...") (sonnet) [237] {10:10}
      • ("Winter a giant wigwam or commune-sized...") [238] {11:02}
      • GROWING UP IN THE 1950s (quatrain) [239] {11:50}
      • From the SEVEN CAULDRONS COMMENTARY on the WANG CHU TRACTATE of LIEH TZU [240] {12:20}
      • ("The Shield of Achilles fails to deflect...") [241] {12:48}
      • ("Truly a can of worms eh...") (sonnet) [242] {13:50}
      • ESCAPISM [243] {15:27}
      • ("The demi-maudit or half-damned poet...") [248] {23:02}
      • ("Without wine no religion. Without intoxication...") (quatrain) [249] {23:51}
      • ("Same old growth since the Jurassic...") [250] {24:14}
      • ("Booming clichés can be utilized in Chinese ways...") (sonnet) [251] {25:05}
      • ("Every day spent in the nude...") (sonnet) [252] {26:10}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, April 30, 2015

Set 1 (57:36): MP3

  • ("Form dictates content the tearfulness...") (ghazal) [254] {00:01}
  • ("For example in October...") [255] {01:16}
  • INISFREE [256] {01:51}
  • ("Think global...") [257] {02:51}
  • WATERFALL IN MOOSALAMOO, VERMONT [258] {03:23}
  • OOLONG [259] {04:01}
  • ("If YOU smelled like September 24th...") [260] {04:42}
  • NEW WAYS TO PUBLISH YR POEMS (prose paragraph) [261] {05:21}
  • SONNET-&-A-HALF or, 21-gun Ode to October [262] {07:26}
  • ("The nape of the neck of the just—...") (ghazal) [263] {09:06}
  • THE WAY TO WEIGH DOWN [264] {10:12}
  • ORNAMENTAL HERMIT (prose paragraph) [265] {11:06}
  • ("Enlightened sages get nuked just...") (sonnet) [266] {14:19}
  • ("Remember St Paul's Epistle to the Galatians...") (sonnet) [267] {15:11}
  • ("Born & bred for bohemia now...") (sonnet) [268] {16:02}
  • JOBS FOR HORSES (ghazal) [269] {16:52}
  • SECRECY CREATES VALUE [270] {17:55}
  • ("Our nest of spies has sunk so far...") [271] {19:04}
  • TOMBEAU for Robert Anton Wilson [272] {19:58}
  • ("One good excuse for a Doomsday cult...") (sonnet) [273] {21:08}
  • DELICATE MONSTER (Condensed Novel) (Steampunk SciFi) [274] {22:12}
  • ("In a story I invent someone...") (sonnet) [276] {26:20}
  • ENDS [277] {27:14}
  • ("Abu Nuwas is packing a pistol—but also...") (ghazal) [278] {28:13}
  • IF POETRY IS NEWS THAT STAYS NEWS WHY ISN'T IT IN THE PAPERS? (haiku headline) [279] {29:19}
  • TOMBEAU FOR COLIN WILSON (prose paragraph) [280] {29:44}
  • ("I missed my calling—meteorologist—wasted my life unable...") (prose paragraph) [281] {30:35}
  • JOHN HUMPHREY NOYES GOES INTO EXILE [282] {31:47}
  • ("All canals are a bit Chinese...") (sonnet) [284] {33:21}
  • ("Collecting some selves from nearby...") (sonnet) [285] {34:13}
  • FAMOUS GARDENS OF SHIRAZ [286] {35:18}
  • ("A rivulet that creeps...") (sonnet) [289] {38:04}
  • WHY DO THEY HATE US? [290] {39:01}
  • AWARD NIGHT (sonnet) [291] {39:37}
  • NEO-GHAZAL [292] {40:43}
  • REVIEW OF SOMAPOETICS (1974) [293] {41:39}
  • LETTER TO MRS LUDD THE BLACK LAMP [294] {43:14}
  • ET IN ARCADIA [300] {48:43}
  • TOMBEAU FOR LEONORA CARRINGTON [304] {53:18}
  • ("in mourning for all beautiful fleeting thoughts...") [306] {55:32}
  • OTHER PEOPLES' GARDENS [307] {56:30}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, May 7, 2015

Set 1 (44:11): MP3

  • Episcopalian Luddite Sonnets {00:30}
    • ("Erasmus Darwin, not Charles...") [418] {01:15}
    • ("How local is a breeze?...") [423] {02:06}
    • NIHIL OBSTAT [372] {02:47}
    • ("Schizophrenically unsatiated with...") [388] {03:56}
    • BEAM ME UP [414] {05:09}
    • ("What with crow, ice, snow & sun...") [406] {06:02}
    • ("Deep in the subbasement our ideologue...") [419] {07:06}
    • ("Formerly...") [420] {08:04}
    • ("The dead mailman...") [421] {08:58}
    • ("Have you noticed certain fruit trees...") [428] {09:39}
    • ("Cults that last for a very long time...") [431] {10:45}
    • ("Of course there was nothing super-...") [373] {11:47}
    • ("I Had Sex In Atlantis...") [374] {12:42}
    • ("Guesstimate an estivation rate...") [377] {13:39}
    • ULYSSES [378] {14:28}
    • ("You need a lot of poison just...") [384] {15:29}
    • ("Only an Episcopalian could understand...") [385] {16:20}
    • ON THE INDEX [387] {17:16}
    • GHAZAL [391] {18:14}
    • ("Opal is an unlucky stone unless...") [394] {19:04}
    • NON-JURING SONNET [395] {20:03}
    • ODIOUS/ODOROUS [397] {21:08}
    • A PRIORY, a priori or, SIGHIN' FOR SION [412] {22:06}
    • PEAR CIDER [413] {23:00}
    • ("What!? Trade one hour with you for...") [402] {23:58}

  • Hydrographicon {25:04}
    • THE JUKES [340] {25:51}
    • PLUTARCH SWAMP [341] {26:56}
    • SWIMMING HOLE [343] {29:59}
    • ANOTHER SWIMMING HOLE [344] {31:05}
    • SWIMMING HOLE: BROKEN AQUEDUCT, MOHONK [346] {32:04}
    • PLATTEKILL GORGE: WATERMEADOW VIEWED FROM RR BRIDGE [347] {32:43}
    • ("This creek is named by Carlton Mabee in his...") [348] {34:03}
    • ("EVEN RADICALS...") (bumpersticker) [349] {35:01}
    • JOHN BURROUGHS NATURE PRESERVE [350] {35:12}
    • POND [351] {36:24}
    • TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS PUDDLE [353] {38:03}
    • NEPTUNISM (a Hudsonian Ode) [354] {39:39:16}
    • BANNERMAN ISLAND [356] {41:00}
    • WALLKILL [357] {42:11}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, May 20, 2015

Set 1 (13:00): MP3

  • WATER MUSIC [359] {00:01}
  • A REVIEW OF MASARU EMOTO'S HIDDEN MESSAGES IN WATER [361] {02:43}
  • WHAT THALES SAW [362] {03:56}
  • HYDROGRAPHICON [363] {04:58}
  • ("The Nibelungization of the Hudson...") [364] {05:48}
  • THE D&H CANAL [365] {07:02}
  • MOUNTAIN LAKES [367] {09:35}
  • SCENIC HUDSON [368] {11:20}

Set 2 (43:03): MP3

  • Epigraph [4] {00:00}
  • ODE TO NITE [5] {01:26}
  • THE LAST SECRET PLACE ON EARTH [10] {06:09}
  • ("Without some you the orbit begins to wobble...") [12] {07:39}
  • ("The dull day absolves from responsibilities...") (sonnet) [13] {08:43}
  • ("I would like to be beside the seaside...") [14] {10:21}
  • ("eyes become the color of the ice they see...") [15] {11:18}
  • GHAZAL IN "N" [16] {12:02}
  • QUATRAIN [17] {12:55}
  • TESTIFICATION [18] {13:36}
  • NON-GHAZAL [19] {14:58}
  • ("We know we know...") (quatrain) [20] {15:54}
  • SONG [21] {16:12}
  • FRAGMENT [22] {16:57}
  • PSEUDO-GHAZAL [23] {17:22}
  • QUATRAIN [24] {18:13}
  • QUATRAIN [25] {18:40}
  • GHAZAL [26] {19:19}
  • TERRORIST GHAZAL [27] {20:03}
  • GLOOMY GHAZAL [28] {20:54}
  • MINOR FLOOD (ghazal) [29] {21:58}
  • PROPHECY [30] {23:01}
  • ("wine called Domaine de Solitude...") (sonnet) [31] {24:22}
  • ("gothic novel in which nothing much happens...") [32] {25:21}
  • GHAZAL [33] {26:26}
  • TECHNONECRONOMICON [34] {27:25}
  • ("Champollion betrayed us & we must...") [35] {28:19}
  • HARMONIAL PUNCH [n/a] {29:00}
  • ("' Anywhere but here' could mean right here...'") (prose paragraph) [36] {29:47}
  • SHELL OF THE DAY [n/a] {30:29}
  • SPARKS [n/a] {31:07}
  • SWAMP ANGEL [37] {32:33}
  • ("Let's go to Ocean Grove...") [38] {33:39}
  • ("In this New Age catalog...") [39] {34:30}
  • ("somewhere in the world must be...") [40] {34:50}
  • ("Am I blue...") [41] {35:21}
  • ("Imperial Teahouse, San Francisco, Chinatown...") (sonnet) [42] {36:11}
  • AMBER [43] {37:27}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, May 28, 2015

Set 1 (29:13): MP3

ECLOGUES (Parts 1-10) [308] {00:17}

  1. {01:34}
  2. {03:22}
  3. {04:07}
  4. {04:44}
  5. {06:14}
  6. {09:22}
  7. {12:11}
  8. {21:32}
  9. {25:18}
  10. {27:06}

Set 2 (37:01): MP3

  • ("Two cabbage butterflies...") [n/a] {00:01}
  • DINNER [48] {00:33}
  • REBUS [49] {02:05}
  • ("The annoying thing about the blue flower...") (prose paragraph) [51] {04:14}
  • Open Letter (sonnet) [52] {05:19}
  • ("Runaways plan on islands where they'll stay...") (sonnet) [53] {06:33}
  • ("That disembodied passion for micropatrology...") (sonnet) [54] {07:33}
  • LOTBINIÈRE (sonnet) [56] {09:58}
  • THE SIEUR LOTBINIÈRE (sonnet) [55] {10:51}
  • ("Cling to Winter, don't let Winter go...") (sonnet) [57] {12:00}
  • ("We formed Neighborhood Watch Groups...") (sonnet) [58] {13:31}
  • ("25% of black swans are homosexual...") (sonnet) [59] {14:30}
  • ("The alphabet are fish...") (sonnet) [60] {15:30}
  • ("Football is the text the spectators...") (sonnet) [61] {16:24}
  • ("The light had the slightly pickled...") (sonnet) [62] {17:12}
  • ("Let me be the Maurice Utrillo...") (sonnet) [63] {18:11}
  • ("Don't slack off the Stakhanovite pace...") (sonnet) [64] {19:17}
  • FIBONACCI'S AIRSTREAM [65] {20:16}
  • WAYS OF LOOKING AT INSURANCE [572] {21:24}
  • ILLEGALISM: THE POETRY OF TOMORROW [66] {21:58}
  • THE FOURSQUARE PLAN (sonnet) [67] {22:59}
  • STENCILS [68] {23:56}
  • GNOSTALGIA [69] {25:29}
  • ("The bush spirits are UNNhappy tonite...") (sonnet) [70] {26:13}
  • BED AS A TYPE OF HEAVEN [71] {27:24}
  • ("In the midst of hushed formal garden...") (sonnet) [72] {28:00}
  • ("Eyes emit rays...") [73] {28:56}
  • MIMEO [91] {29:39}
  • ("In the morning there was mourning...") (sonnet) [74] {30:37}
  • ("Let me be the dupe of yr cause however...") [75] {31:48}
  • TABLET [76] {32:27}
  • ("Already nostalgic for the Present...") [77] {33:06}
  • ("Bats have achieved the mammalian dream...") [78] {33:44}
  • ("Odi et amo but not in a schizo way...") (sonnet) [79] {34:34}
  • ("Past erupts into Present like hot lava...") [80] {35:39}

Home Recordings, Woodstock, NY, June 5, 2015

Set 1 (1:18:42): MP3

  • SWEETS [81] {00:01}
  • ("Let it all...") [82] {01:09}
  • ("the true Western Way...") [83] {02:11}
  • ("leaf mold...") [84] {02:30}
  • ("mail-order catalogs...") [85] {03:05}
  • ("a temporary secession...") [86] {03:40}
  • (note: get this translated into Spanish) [87] {04:10}
  • ("The pleasure of wandering is equalled only by...") [88] {04:41}
  • ("Enemies of clocks are not innocent of time...") [89] {04:59}
  • ("So muggy the fireflies cast...") [n/a] {05:47}
  • MIMEO [91] {07:01}
  • BUMPERSTICKERS [92] {07:58}
  • ("If fetishists love shoes without feet...") [94] {08:59}
  • ("Fire-Baptized Church of Holiness with Signs Attending...") [95] {09:56}
  • THE GNOSE KNOWS [96] {10:30}
  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR CATSKILL JOURNAL [97] {11:16}
  • Daoism and Ecology A Review [98] {11:46}
  • THE FOLLY [100] {14: 04}
  • TOMBEAU FOR MALLARMÉ [101] {15:05}
  • THE LATE NEOLITHIC COOKBOOK [102] {15:47}
  • AESTHETICS OF NOISE [103] {17:00}
  • ("Soon we'll ring for our swan boat...") (sonnet) [104] {17:54}
  • GREG FOSTER RECOMMENDS SHAMROCK TEA BY CIARAN CARSON (sonnet) [105] {18:51}
  • ("The best thing about Fatimid Egypt is that...") (sonnet) [106] {20:14}
  • BUMPERSTICKER [92] {21:06}
  • ("Once in Cuba or New Orleans...") (sonnet) [107] {21:17}
  • RAPTURE (sonnet) [108] {22:10}
  • ("mistook the leaves for doves...") (sonnet) [109] {23:00}
  • ("Try Hallmark Surrealism. Think...") [110] {23:50}
  • ("Oneirocracy, or rule by noctambules...") (sonnet) [111] {24:59}
  • ("The cult of sex with elemental Spirits...") (sonnet) [112] {25:54}
  • ENDARKENMENT (sonnet) [113] {26:58}
  • ("Whether veg or non-veg one must...") (sonnet) [114] {28:09}
  • TOMBEAU FOR GÉRARD DE NERVAL (sonnet) [115] {29:01}
  • CLAVIS [116] {30:05}
  • "...the Jordan river is badly polluted..." [117] {30:55}
  • THE CALENDAR IS THE FIRST IDEOLOGY [118] {31:54}
  • A TOMBEAU FOR GORDON CAMPBELL [119] {33:13}
  • TOMBEAU FOR JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN [121] {35:42}
  • ("In an obviously garbled variant Thursday's Child...") [188] {37:58}
  • ("I'd like to eulogize the unnoticed...") (sonnet) [189] {38:54}
  • ("Some Heritage Tour will package it as entertainment...") (quatrain) [190] {39:52}
  • ("THE VEIL OF ISIS. In the saturated sky...") [191] {40:21}
  • ("A ludicrous speeded-up motion...") (sonnet) [192] {40:49}
  • ("It is good to be the Pope...") [193] {41:55}
  • MUD SEASON [194] {42:04}
  • ("The hole in the middle of the poem...") (sonnet) [195] {42:51}
  • ("This incense will activate yr atavistic glands...") (sonnet) [196] {43:54}
  • ("The Missing Personae Department of the Myth Police...") (sonnet) [197] {45:00}
  • ("What we want is a concrete example of the invisible...") (sonnet) [198] {46:02}
  • ("Thus Nerval's insistence that we steal back...") [199] {46:59}
  • ("Once there was a religion for you & me...") [200] {47:49}
  • ("To be a real dandy like Beau Brummel...") (sonnet) [201] {48:34}
  • ("GASTROSOPHY—the demand for a homeland where...") [202] {49:32}
  • NOVALIS (12 parts) [203] {49:53}
  • ("7 bottles of Planetary Elixirs one for each box...") [205] {52:18}
  • ("SURROCOCO: sinuosities convexing or...") [206] {53:30}
  • BLUES WITHOUT RHYMES [207] {54:45}
  • LINKED AUTISM SONNETS [209] {56:43}
  • ADVERTIZING BROCHURE FOR MAIL-ORDER HOODOO SCHOOL
  • OF HIEROGLYPHICS & PROTECTION FROM THE EVIL EYE [211] {59:58}
  • ("Some disenchanted evening...") [212] {1:01:24}
  • TOPOPHILIA [213] {1:02:21}
  • CHICKEN LIB (sonnet) [214] {01:03:39}
  • TABLET FOR TIAMAT [215] {01:04:39}
  • MORTAL COIL [217] {01:06:13}
  • ("Can money...") [220] {01:10:00}
  • ("Monday is a saint's day...") (Old English Rhyme) [221] {01:10:20}
  • ("Archers know nothing but bullseyes...") (sonnet) [222] {01:10:48}
  • ("Like a Punch & Judy show based on the...") [223] {01:11:33}
  • ("Byzantine Iconoclasm insists that the...") [224] {01:12:07}
  • ("Crepuscular, umber...") [225] {01:12:35}
  • ("Let's return to Hollow Earth via...") [226] {01:13:05}
  • ("A politique of the marvelous demands...") (sonnet) [227] {01:14:53}
  • ("A neo-Goethean color theory prevails...") [228] {01:15:47}
  • TOMBEAU FOR MANY [229] {01:16:18}
  • ("Sometimes when you've thought many...") (sonnet) [230] {01:17:57}


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