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Peter Gizzi

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Close Listening: Reading and Conversation at Art Radio WPS1 with Charles Bernstein, March 17, 2008

  • Conversation (23:23): MP3
  • Reading (26:30): MP3
  • from Periplum and other poems (1987-1992)
  • Thirty Sentencesfor No One (3:05): MP3
  • Periplum (0:35) MP3
  • from Artificial Heart (1998)
  • Another day on the Pilgrimage (5:22) MP3
  • Tous les Matins du Monde (1:09) MP3
  • from Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003)
  • Plain Song (2:14) MP3
  • Beginning With a Phrase from Simone Weil (2:15) MP3
  • from The Outernationale (2007)
  • The Quest (0:32) MP3
  • The Outernationale (2:18) MP3
  • Untitled Amherst Specter (0:38) MP3
  • Protest Song (0:38) MP3
  • A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (7:43) MP3
  • Close Listening Engineer: Jeannie Hooper
  • Additional technical support: Michael Hennessey

      • Reading with interview and introduction by Ocean Vuong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 18, 2021

      Reading from Sky Burial via Zoom, hosted by Colin Herd, May 11, 2020

      Complete video (53:29): MP4, YouTube

      Reading in Brooklyn, January 4, 2020

      recorded by Charles Bernstein

      from Now It's Dark (2020)

      Complete Recording (22:38): MP3

      1. Speech Acts for a Dying World (2:08): MP3
      2. That I Saw the Light on Nonotuck Avenue (1:42): MP3
      3. Every Day I Want to Fly My Kite (1:45): MP3
      4. The Present is Constant Elegy (1:07): MP3
      5. Now It's Dark (3:59): MP3
      6. The Afterlife of Paper (0:26): MP3
      7. Flood Subject (1:29): MP3
      8. Last Poem (2:08): MP3
      9. Inside Out Loud (1:43): MP3
      10. Now It's Dark (1:11): MP3
      11. The Blossom Is Stronger Than Us (0:32): MP3
      12. Some Joy for Morning: MP3 (0:40)
      13. From This End of Sadness (2:51): MP3

      from Threshold Songs (2011)

      Complete Recording (21:14): MP3

      1. The Growing Edge (1:44): MP3
      2. Eye of the Poem (1:06): MP3
      3. Analemma (1:34): MP3
      4. Basement Song (0:39): MP3
      5. Fragment (0:36): MP3
      6. Pinocchio's Gnosis (8:09): MP3
      7. Lullaby (0:43): MP3
      8. Apocrypha (3:50): MP3
      9. A Note on the Text (0:42): MP3
      10. Bardo (1:11): MP3

      Poetry Reading at the Kelly Writers House on October 2, 2017

    • Complete Reading (21:21) MP3

      • Reading of Flow Chart, John Ashbery 90th Celebration, 2017

      Complete Reading (8:19): MP3

      Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, April 14, 2015

      Full recording available here.

      Reading from The Outernationale, recorded at The Nation offices, September 17, 2010

      1. Matthew Brady Photographs (00:54) MP3
      2. Homer's Anger (04:29) MP3
      3. Beacon (05:30) MP3

      Reading for Double Change, Paris, April 7, 2009

      From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

      • reading "Leviathan" from Materials MP3

      The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, New York, April 8, 2008

      • Gizzi reads Oppen's "Leviathan" (1:10): MP3
      • Gizzi reads Oppen's "World, World" (1:10): MP3
      • Gizzi reads Oppen's "Power, Enchanted World" (2:15): MP3

      From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Peter & the Analogue World, March 17, 2008

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      Peter Gizzi
      We were on the roof of the Clocktower, just about to go to the Chinatown for lunch. On a clear day you can Queens, which is just over Peter's left shoulder.
      (mp4, 28 sec., 10.5 mb)


      Cross-Cultural Poetics, October 14, 2007

      • Gizzi reads from and discusses The Outernationale.
        (29:55): MP3 (27MB)

      From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Peter Gizzi, June 4, 2007

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      Peter's Marigolds
      The flowering Spring trees amidst the pines.
      (mp4, 30 sec., 6.2 mb)


      Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 14, 2004

      1. Introduction (1:43): MP3
      2. A History of the Lyric (5:34): MP3

        3. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
        The ethics of dust
        In the garden
        To his wife far off in a time of war
        A history of the lyric
        Coda

      3. A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (1 & 3) (3:44): MP3
      4. Add This to the House (0:46): MP3
      5. Chateau If (1:17): MP3
      6. In Defense of Nothing (0:34): MP3
      7. Overtakelessness (0:55): MP3
      8. Revival (6:13): MP3

      Reading with Elizabeth Willis, SUNY Buffalo, April 9, 2003

      1. Introduction (3:04): MP3
      2. Beginning with a Phrase by Simone Weil (3:00): MP3
      3. A History of the Lyric: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear (2:17): MP3
      4. A History of the Lyric: The ethics of dust (0:52): MP3
      5. A History of the Lyric: In the garden (1:18): MP3
      6. A History of the Lyric: To his wife far off in a time of war (0:30): MP3
      7. A History of the Lyric (0:51): MP3
      8. A History of the Lyric: Coda (0:31): MP3
      9. Some Values of Landscape and Weather (4:40): MP3
      10. Revival (7:41): MP3
      11. In Defense of Nothing (0:37): MP3
      12. Protest Song (1:20): MP3
      • Complete reading (27:43): MP3

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

      1. introduction (0:45): MP3
      2. Song Out of Mind, For, After, and By, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop (3:08): MP3
      3. Tous Les Matins Du Monde (1:19): MP3
      4. Lonely Tylenol (1:06): MP3
      5. Ding Repair (5:07): MP3
      6. Stars of Track and Field (1:32): MP3
      7. Masters of Conte Jondo (1:23): MP3
      8. Fin Amor (2:17): MP3
      9. Beginning With a Phrase from Simone Weil (2:44): MP3

      Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1997

      • Reading on March 21, 1997 (26:04): MP3

      MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

      • Pierced (7:24): MP3

      Canadian Emergency Tour Interview with Shelagh Rogers, 1994

      Jeff Derksen, Lisa Robertson, Catriona Strang, Nancy Shaw with Peter Gizzi (19:35): MP3

      Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 2, 1993

      1. The Locket (1:13): MP3
      2. A Speaking Part (2:20): MP3
      3. Utopia Parkway (1:59): MP3
      4. Hard As Ash (11:16): MP3

      Complete reading (16:35): MP3

      Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, March 13, 1993

      1. introduction (1:35): MP3
      2. The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens (1:30): MP3
      3. Sum Body (4:51): MP3
      4. Still Life with Automobile (0:39): MP3
      5. Lonely Tylenol (1:21): MP3
      6. Periplum (1:37): MP3
      7. The Locket (After the holiday the phone was silent) (1:46): MP3
      8. The Locket (Here is the ashtray) (0:44): MP3
      9. Periplum II (0:29): MP3
      10. The Locket (Dear E. Who was that thin figure inhabiting a bedroom?) (0:44): MP3
      11. Periplum III (0:25): MP3
      12. The Locket (All the mirrors in the world) (0:46): MP3
      13. Periplum IV (0:24): MP3
      14. Song of the Liver (0:45): MP3
      15. The Locket (Stay there O and forgive the usages known as speech) (0:41): MP3
      16. Periplum V (0:24): MP3
      17. The Locket (Next the composition insists on playing the game for keeps) (0:48): MP3
      18. Periplum VI (0:37): MP3
      19. Song of the Den (0:56): MP3
      20. The Locket (This day black knee socks on a grey field) (0:47): MP3
      21. Periplum VII (a valentine) (0:40): MP3
      22. Dear Jack (2:08): MP3
      23. Postcard (0:31): MP3
      • Complete recording (26:29): MP3

      Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, June 6, 1992

      1. introduction (1:23): MP3
      2. Asserted Abundance (2:18): MP3
      3. Song of the Interior Begin (2:07): MP3
      4. Mahler's 2nd (0:59): MP3
      5. Mise en Scene (1:21): MP3
      6. Periplum (0:33): MP3
      7. Song of the Comparative Night (0:47): MP3
      8. The Locket (Dear E. Who was that thin figure inhabiting a bedroom?) (0:41): MP3
      9. Song of a Lexicon (0:28): MP3
      10. Periplum IV (0:21): MP3
      11. Blue Peter (3:27): MP3
      12. Song of the Liver (0:44): MP3
      13. The Locket (Stay there O and forgive the usages known as speech) (0:42): MP3
      14. Capital (0:44): MP3
      15. The Locket (This day black knee socks on a grey field) (1:23): MP3
      16. Deux ex Machina (3:42): MP3
      17. Song of an Acute Angle (0:31): MP3
      18. Hard as Ash (9:21): MP3

      Complete reading (32:59): MP3

      Reading at SUNY Buffalo, February 12, 1992

      • Complete reading (4:57): MP3


      Also on Pennsound

      • PhillyTalks, Episode #10 with Steven Farmer - March 1, 1999
      • Peter Gizzi reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

      Peter Gizzi on PennSound Daily

      These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.Close Listening ©2008 by Charles Bernstein & Peter Gizzi. All rights to all the other recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2017 Peter Gizzi. Used with permission of Peter Gizzi. Distributed by PennSound.