Robert Grenier and Stephen Ratcliffe In Conversation

1. counting and patterning in the "natural world" in connection with writing (12:48): MP3
2. the pervasive overlay of theory (1:51): MP3
3. discussing "WINDY TODAY TONIGHT" (4:39): MP3
4. discussing "WINDY EUCALYPTS," language as an organic phenomenon, and the writing of the poems (17:37): MP3
5. discussing "TWELVE VOWELS // breakfast // the sky flurries," "walking down Washington Avenue," "kept on going to the corner store" (from Sentences) and language's reverberations with experience (13:34): MP3
6. discussing "time to go to the laundry again soon," inhabiting time, and the "value" of writing something down (5:50): MP3
7. discussing "LESLIE GAVE ME A ROSE"..."FROM THE GARDEN ITSELF," "ALL WELL AND GOOD," and Leslie Scalapino's work (4:21): MP3
8. discussing "HERE I AM THERE YOU [ARE]," "ANY TOPIC BUT LIFE"..."LIFE LONG BEING ALIVE," and "THAT ONE COYOTE"..."AIEE AIEEE WEIRD EH?" (9:37): MP3
9. discussing "MOON LIGHT SUCH A PLACE"..."INCOMPREHENSIBLE" (9:56): MP3

WINDY
TODAY
TO NI
GHT

WIND
DY
EUCA
LYPTS

LESLIE
GAVE
ME A
ROSE

FROM
THE
GARDEN
ITSELF

HERE
I AM
THERE
YOU

ANY LIFE
TOPIC LONG
  BUT         BEING
   LIFE ALIVE  

THAT   AIEE    
 ONE AIEEE   
COY  WEIRD 
OTE EH?    

MOON
LIGHT
SUCH A
PLACE

INCO
MPRE
HENS
IBLE