Barbara Guest

LINEbreak radio program with Charles Bernstein

An Emphasis Falls on Reality (from Exact Change)

Barbara Guest Praise Day - Tribute at The Bowery Poetry Club
October 21, 2006
complete reading MP3 (1:18:40)
featuring:
Lytle Shaw (11:10): MP3
Lewis Warsh (6:51): MP3
Marcella Durand (7:47): MP3
Charles Bernstein (14:58): MP3
Africa Wayne (12:18): MP3
Charles North (8:53): MP3
Erica Kaufman(8:53): MP3
Conclusion (6:19): MP3
with special guest Hadley Haden Guest and host Kristin Prevallet

Reading from The Red Gaze
The Red Gaze (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
Recorded for PennSound by Allan Graham, Berkeley, April 7, 2004:

1. Nostalgia of the Infinite (1:39) [titled "Nostalgia" in the book]
2. An Afternoon in Jeopardy (1:24)
3. Imagined Room (0:57)
4. She Honors De Chirico (0:54) [title changed to "Loneliness" for the book]
5. A Different Honey (0:39)
6. A Short Narrative (0:29)
7. Roman Stripes (0:56)
8. The Next Floor (1:02)
9. Freedom (0:43)
10. The Hungry Knight (0:35)
11. The Trickster (0:44)
12. The Past (0:31)
13. Modernism (0:46)
14. A Burst of Leaves (0:35)
15. The Smooth Stair (0:49)
16. Alteration (0:32)
17. Freed Color (1:35)
18. Green Numbers (0:50)
19. The Brown Vest (0:39)
20. The Gold Tap (0:22)
21. The Red Gaze (0:45)
22. A Dawn Walk (0:36)
23. Untitled (0:23) [on p. 36 of the book]
24. Hans Hofmann (2:26) [slghtly longer than the published version]
25. Vignettes (0:26) [one line shorter than version published in the book]
26. Echoes (0:20) [one line shorter than version published in the book]
27. Instructions (0:29)
28. Composition (0:41)
29. Supposition (0:15)
30. [quotation from Theodor Adorno] (0:16) [the book's epigraph]

Studio recording called The Location of Things
(reading from poems dated 1960 to 1979)
[Note: The Location of Things is the title of Guest's 1960 volume; this commercial recording included readings from that book and others.]

1. Windy Afternoon (0:49) [Collected Poems, p. 8]
2. The Piazza (1:52) [titled "Piazzas," CP, p. 4]
3. Santa Fe Trail (1:23) [in The Open Skies, CP p. 49]
4. Sunday Evening (1:10) [CP, p. 13]
5. The Blue Stairs (2:13) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 61]
6. Saving Tallow (1:46) [from The Blue Stairs, CP, p. 71]
7. The Return of the Muses (2:15) [CP, p. 72]
8. A Handbook of Surfing (9:55) [CP, p. 85]
9. Turkey Villas (2:22) [CP, p. 64]
10. Egypt (1:15) [from Moscow Mansions, CP, p. 100]
11. Roses (1:20) [CP, p. 128]
12. Passage (for John Coltrane) (1:21) [CP, p. 130]
13. Knight of the Swan (11:42) [CP, p. 108]
14. The Countess from Minneapolis (excerpts) (8:29) [CP, pp. 143-66]
15. The Turler Losses (excerpts) (9:25) [CP, p. 169-182]

Credits for The Location of Things:
Selections 1-4, Poems, Doubleday and Company, Inc. Selections 5-9, The Blue Stairs, Corinth Books. Selections 10-13, Moscow Mansions, A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press. Selection 14, The Countess from Minneapolis, Burning Deck. Selection 15, The Turler Losses, Mansfield Book Mart Ltd.
Copyright © 1962, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979 by Barbara Guest.
Recording History: All selections were recorded at Artist's Access Studio, New York, New York, May, 1984
Producer: Anne Becker Recording Engineer: Peter Darmi Post Prod. Engineers: Anne Becker & Katherin Mattern
Executive Producer: Alan Austin

Reading and lecture/discussion at SUNY Buffalo - April 1 & 2, 1992
>> poetry reading - April 1
* entire reading (43:50)
1. The Nude (8:02) [from Fair Realism, 1989; CP, p. 238]
2. The Farewell Stairway (3:15) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]
3. An Emphasis Falls on Reality (2:37) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 221]
4. Heavy Violets (0:46) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 232]
5. The Cradle of Culture (2:08) [from Fair Realism; CP, p. 250]
6. Otranto (6:38) [from Defensive Rapture, 1993; CP, p. 300]
7. Dove (2:26) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 261]
8. Defensive Rapture (2:33) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 277]
9. Borderlands (1:57) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 288]
10. Winter Horses (2:04) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 304]
11. The Glass Mountain (3:17) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 295]
12. Earrings (1:17) [Note: This poem, beginning "Running over the edge...," is not in Collected and might be unpublished.]
13. Dissonance, Royal Traveller (4:10) [from Defensive Rapture; CP, p. 289]
>> lecture and seminar discussion - April 2
I. lecture titled "How I Got out of Poetry and into Prose" (20:24)
II. seminar discussion (1:37:35)
[Note: This recording drops out once at 0:26:00 minutes and again and 1:13:00 when cassette was flipped or changed during recording.]

LINKS
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