Hank Lazer

Photo ©2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening
March 18, 2009
with Charles Bernstein on Art International  Radio (ArtonAir.org)

Program One:
Full Reading: MP3 (27:38)

1. From Lyric & Spirit, p. 324 – on poetry and entering a space (1:00): MP3

From Portions
2. Portal (0:31): MP3
3. Fluorescence (0:38): MP3
4. Surge (0:30): MP3
5. Robert Duncan (0:53): MP3
6. Container (0:33): MP3
7. Horizon (0:44): MP3
8. Sense (0:40): MP3
9. Location (0:35): MP3
10. Figure (for Louis Zukofsky) (0:56): MP3
11. Thud (0:40): MP3
12. Shem (0:39): MP3
13. Adjust (0:39): MP3
14. Breath (for Norman Fischer) (0:42): MP3
15. Way (0:30): MP3

16. From Lyric & Spirit, p. 302-303 – on Jabès, Derrida, a-theism, and a relation to the divine (1:58): MP3

17. From The New Spirit: Leaning Toward (the final poem) (7:18): MP3

18. Brief intro to The Notebooks (of Being & Time) (0:35): MP3
19. The funnel poem  (“you/ mean like/ this …”  2/3/07 – Notebook II, p. 29) – 2 voice piece, with Charles Bernstein (2:50): MP3
20. “we pray to pray/ to be able to” (1/7/07 – Notebook II, p. 21) (1:14): MP3
21. “hacking kaballah” (6/13/07-6/14/07 – Notebook IV, pages 21-24) (1:22): MP3

Program two
Conversation with Charles Bernstein: MP3 (27:20)
Hank Lazer talks to me about the confluences of his identities; about Southern poetry; about the poetics of jazz and transition; about the forms of his work; about the purported conflict between creativity and critical thinking; and about his poem "Figure."

Reading at Kelly Writers House, March 17, 2009
complete reading (50:19): MP3   MOV

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics #162, "Spirit," hosted by Leonard Schwartz, March 2, 2008
complete program (45:50): MP3

"Religious vs. Religion: Innovative Poetry and Spiritual Experience," University of Alabama, November 9, 2005
complete lecture (1:06:38): MP3

Days: Poesis All the Way Through 233

1. Days: Poesis (0:24): MP3
2. Days 18 (0:17): MP3
3. Days 54 (0:20): MP3
4. Days 71 (0:15): MP3
5. Days 72 (0:20): MP3
6. Days 74 (0:24): MP3
7. Days 84 (0:26): MP3
8. Days 114 (0:21): MP3
9. Days 120 (0:14): MP3
10. Days 129 (0:21): MP3
11. Days 138 (0:17): MP3
12. Days 172 (0:14): MP3
13. Days 173 (0:17): MP3
14. Days 175 (0:11): MP3
15. Days 229 (0:23): MP3
16. Days 233 (0:28): MP3
17. Days 5 (with the Alabama Poetry Ensemble) (0:34): MP3
18. Days 72 (with the Alabama Poetry Ensemble) (0:53): MP3
19. Days 55 (with the Alabama Poetry Ensemble) (0:39): MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2009 Hank Lazer. Close Listening © 2009 Lazer and Charles Bernstein. Used with permission of Hank Lazer. Distributed by PennSound.