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Charles Bernstein and John Ashbery

Mo Pitkin's, New York June 6, 2007

Sponsored by Poetry magazine & McSweeney's"Chain" issue
Note: Lynn Emmanuel read first at this event but her reading was not on the CD provided to PennSound.

John Ashbery A Worldly Country

Full Reading by John Ashbery: (22:44) MP3

  1. Introduction (1:13) MP3
  2. A Worldly Country (3:26): MP3
  3. To Be Affronted (1:58): MP3
  4. Opposition to a Memorial (2:17): MP3
  5. For Now (1:36): MP3
  6. Image Problem (1:34): MP3
  7. A Kind of Chill (0:48): MP3
  8. Well-Scrubbed Interior (1:15): MP3
  9. Thrill of a Romance (1:37): MP3
  10. Phantoum (4:08): MP3
  11. So Long, Santa (1:53): MP3

Charles Bernstein

Full Reading by Charles Bernstein: (26:23) MP3

  1. Opening comments on Ashbery (4:04): MP3
  2. Design (1:12): MP3
  3. Sad Boy's Sad Boy (1:38): MP3
  4. "Dew and Die" from Shadowtime (4:47): MP3
  5. "One and a Half Truths" from Shadowtime (2:30): MP3
  6.  " Madame Moiselle ...." from Shadowtime (0:48): MP3
  7. "every lake ..." from Girly Man (1:39): MP3
  8. A Theory's Evolution (1:57): MP3
  9. The Honor of Virtue (0:24): MP3
  10. Loneliness in Linden (1:28): MP3
  11. Kiss Me Tommy (Brush Up Your Chaucer) (4:48): MP3
  12. Wherever Angels Go (from Girly Man) (0:46): MP3 (cut off in middle)



Ashbery & Bernstein at Bard for Ashbery's 80th (photo by Susan Bee, ©2007)

These recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. (C) 2007 John Ashbery and (C) 2007 Charles Bernstein, respectively. Used with permission of the authors. Distributed by PennSound.