Tom Mandel

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Tom Mandel

Studio 111 Session, Recorded June 4, 2008
1. A Garment (by Abraham ibn Ezra) (1:09): MP3
2. Gravity and Grace (3:28): MP3
3. To Music (From Memory) (4:23): MP3
4. No Takers (6:34): MP3
5. Ut Pictura Poesis (5:36): MP3
6. Communication Through Hints (7:25): MP3
7. 1902 (1:50): MP3
8. Spoken Quotation (0:56): MP3
9. Xmas '73 (0:34): MP3
10. Twenty Years War (0:57): MP3
11. Only the Sun (0:18): MP3
12. Biography (1:16): MP3
13. Filmic (0:33): MP3
14. Mandel discusses "Ramah" (0:46): MP3
15. A Revealed Pattern (0:57): MP3
16. Fire of Wandering (0:47): MP3
17. Communication Through Hints (1:02): MP3
18. Ben Siran (0:28): MP3
19. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (1:33): MP3
20. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics III (1:01): MP3
21. Ancestral Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (4:26): MP3
22. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics: Marginalia (3:14): MP3
23. Mandel discusses To the Cognoscenti (0:52): MP3
24. from "To the Cognoscenti" (2:16): MP3
25. "Persepolis and other hot spots . . ." (0:47): MP3
26. "He has let slip . . ." (3:22): MP3
27. "Blade along incline . . ." (3:34): MP3
28 Part X: "Later the narrator finds himself . . ." (1:08): MP3
29. Part XII: "Introduction" (1:48): MP3
30. The Cave (13:35): MP3

Studio 111 Session Produced by Michael S. Hennessey

from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008
"Entitlement & Doubt (Postcards & Procrastination)" (11:41): MP3

(click for photos of the postcard [front & back] and envelope Mandel discusses in his talk)

PoemTalk #15: Lyn Henjinian, "constant change figures"
with Al Filreis, Bob Perelman and Tom Devaney
Dicussion (26:27): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 20, 2004
Introduction (5:00): MP3
1. Education of the Poet, an Autobiography (11:13): MP3
2. Day (1:35): MP3
3. Rust on a New Penny (3:38): MP3
4. Standards of Compression (9:27): MP3
5. Temptation Roofing (7:49): MP3
6. Absence Sensorium (2:35): MP3
complete reading (41:17): MP3

from PhillyTalks Episode #5, March 5, 1998
Untitled (2:16): MP3
Untitled (5:52): MP3
Untitled (1:42): MP3
Untitled (0:50): MP3
Fire of Wandering (0:50): MP3
Untitled (6:34): MP3

complete program (also featuring Ammiel Alcalay) (1:38:18): MP3

a transcript of the complete program (in PDF format) is available here

Talk on Spinoza: Philosophy and Poetry. June 24, 1979
Part One (46:44): MP3
Part Two (46:52): MP3
Part Three (11:51): MP3 (Question at beginning cut off due to poor sound quality)

Above Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman

Also on PennSound: Alan Berheimer's Particle Arms (1982), which featured Mandel as a performer.

Tom Mandel on PennSound Daily