Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Close Listening recording session at Studio 111, the University of Pennsylvania, April 27, 2005

A Conversation with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, with host Charles Bernstein (36:02)

From Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)
1. Draft 20 - Incipit (5:35)
2. excerpt from Draft 19: Working Conditions (4:16) (from LIVE KWH/WXPN radio show)
3. Draft 25 - Segno (5:34)  [ALSO, from KWH LIVE Draft Twenty-Five Seigno (4:53)]
From Poker 4 (Summer 2004)
4. Draft 63 - Dialogue of Self & Soul (6:49)

From: Drafts. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, unnumbered (Salt, Cambridge, England, 2004) & Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)
5. Draft 46 - Edge (9:18)
6. Draft 64 - Forward Slash (5:05) (unpublished)
7. 4 Sections from Draft 51 - Clay Songs (12:34)
8. Draft 61 - Pyx (5:21)

produced by Charles Bernstein

recording engineer: Chris Mustazza



from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008
"Section 9: Of Being Numerous" (7:54): MP3


Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 5, 2008
1. Introduction (4:52)
2. Draft 64: Forward Slash (8:06)
3. from Draft 74: Wanderer (10:55)
4. Draft 88: X-Posting (a variation on Ingeborg Bachmann's "Keine Delikatessen") (16:25)
5. from Draft 85: Hard Copy (12:47)

complete reading (54:17): MP3

Selected portions of this event were recorded on video:

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