Charles Baudelaire

from Cross Cultural Poetics Episode #265: Baudelaire, Helen, and The Fugitive Gods, January 17, 2013

• Roberto Calasso, Italian essayist and mythographer, discusses his new book La Folie Baudelaire (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) (27:50): MP3

Ariana Reines's Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 5, 2009

• Complete reading (25:56): MP3

1. Reines talks about Baudelaire's "My heart laid bare" (2:27): MP3
2. Baudelaire's "My heart laid bare" (5:30): MP3

Keith Waldrop reading for Poems for the Millenium Vol. III, Harvard University, March 30, 2009

• To the Reader (3:35): MP3
• The Bad Glazier (7:17): MP3
• The Dog and the Flask (1:26): MP3
• Invitation to the Voyage (7:38): MP3

Complete reading (1:59:24): MP3, MOV

"Be Drunken"

In French, Pierre Joris (Harvard 2009): mp3

Charles Bernstein reading his translation (New York 2009): mp3

Sean Bonney reading Baudelaire in English, Abney Park, London, Winter 2008

Charles Bernstein's translation of "Muse Venale" as "Venereal Muse": Indiana University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2006

Complete Reading (0:54): MP3

Keith Waldrop reading from his translations of Charles Baudelaire' s Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan), November 23, 2006

1. Benediction (4:49): MP3
2. The Life Before (1:02): MP3
3. Don Juan in Hell (1:35): MP3
4. Giantess (1:11): MP3
5. Carrion (2:45): MP3
6. Posthumous Remorse (1:10): MP3
7. Invitation to the Voyage (2:09): MP3
8. Spleen (1:23): MP3
9. Danse Macabre (4:35): MP3
10. A Voyage to Cythera (4:16): MP3
11. To Her Too Merry (1:47): MP3

Recorded and edited by Steve Evans.

Also of Interest:

• Excerpt from Majorie Perloff's talk on "The Waste Land," Audiatur Conference, Bergen, Norway, July 23, 2012: Eliot and Baudelaire on evil (1:39): MP3