Exploratory Translation: Across the Iron Curtain, at the University of Chicago, featuring Lyn Hejinian and Ilya Kutik, hosted by Jennifer Scappettone and Haun Saussy: Readings and Conversation (1:50:20): Video
Reading:
- Introduction from My Life in the Ninties (11:04): MP3
- "This is a hazard of happiness" from The Book of a Thousand Eyes(6:59): MP3
- "Once a poignant catalyst..." (0:30): MP3
- "The sea as it receives..." (1:10): MP3
- "The D baby and her brother..." (1:25): MP3
- "I could instruct the children..." (0:22): MP3
- "There in your hand..." (1:23): MP3
- "I ran to pack..." (0:17): MP3
- "The fallen grass in winter..." (1:20): MP3
- "Here in a sudden of this to Caesar..." (0:41): MP3
- "Once there was a village..." (1:12): MP3
- "A woman is expressing sympathy..." (1:04): MP3
- "I have this to say..." (0:14): MP3
- "Lyn?" (0:05): MP3
- "When we want something..." (1:31): MP3
- "Constant change figures..." (0:45): MP3
- "Walking around, posing..." (2:07): MP3
- "My mother keeps her folded bicycle..." (1:55): MP3
- "Optically riveted..." (0:33): MP3
- "The wife of the merchant George..." (1:27): MP3
- "I have lived aboard a ship..." from The Unfollowed(0:43): MP3
- "Every minute proves..." (1:01): MP3
- "All that the girl thought irrelevant.." (1:25): MP3
- "To begin with, I am faced..." (1:29): MP3
"constant change figures" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 15.
Question and answer session with Al Filreis:
- Introduction (5:37): MP3
- on Carl Rokosi (1:55): MP3
- on "The Fatalist" (15:31): MP3
- on Barbarism (4:18): MP3
- the western desire to describe (4:11): MP3
- "My Life" and compositional practice (2:09): MP3
- younger poets and politics (3:21): MP3
- poetry and ordinary language (4:08): MP3
- terminology in contemporary literary history (4:05): MP3
- social aspect of the language movement (1:47): MP3
- truncated words (2:44): MP3
- poetic practice and technology: engaging texts (3:51): MP3
- the anthology process (4:36): MP3
- wordplay vs. syntax in "Scheherazade" (4:08): MP3
- theory and poetry: shared spaces (4:04): MP3
- on Charles William Beebe (6:51): MP3
- on Russian influences (4:08): MP3
- reading from "the Fatalist" (2:09): MP3
Complete reading: (1:20:22): MP3
Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001
- Introduction (2:30): MP3
- Book 14 of A Border Comedy (12:11): MP3
Complete reading (33:38): MP3