Bob Perelman

Photo: © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Studio 111 recording session at the University of Pennsylvania,
January 27, 2004
Click here for three pictures of the Studio 111 session.

A Conversation with Bob Perelman (56:31), with host Charles Bernstein and questions from Penn students:
MP3 , RealAudio

Studio 111 Reading
1. "An Autobiography" (7:28)
2. On "An Autobiography" (0:45)
3. "The Unruly Child" (1:26)
4. On "The Unruly Child" (0:30)
5. "Let's Say" (2:06)
6. "Praise & Blame" (4:06)
7. On "Praise & Blame" (0:52)
8. "Chronic Meanings" (5:21)
9. On "Chronic Meanings" (1:22)
10. "The Manchurian Candidate" (19:28)
11. "Confession" (2:59)
12. "Revenge of the Bathwater" (4:45)
13. "The Dream of the Bed" (3:02)
14. "Here 2" (5:47)

Credits: Selections 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, & 11, Ten to One: Selected Poems: (Wesleyan University Press, 1999). Copyright © 1999 by Bob Perelman.

Studio 111 Producer: Charles Bernstein
from Patrick Dillon

1. In a Nutshell (1:11)
2. The Avant Garde (3:34)
3. The Library: January 28 (2:36)
4. Confession (3:12)
5. Chaim Soutine (5:24)
6. The Manchurian Candidate: A Remake (21:25)
7. Symmetry of Past and Future (8:42)


Reading for Wednesdays @ 4Plus, University at Buffalo, October 19, 1993

Complete Reading (49:57): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania: "Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism", October 14, 2000

1. Introduction by Al Filreis (2:44)
2. Introductory remarks (1:59)
3. About Louis Zukofsky (14:05)
4. "Not Me" and reading from Zukofsky (6:55)
5. "Catalyst" and "Virgil's Fourth Eclogue" (20:03)

To hear the full recording of the program, click here.

Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 11, 2006

Full Reading (42:03)
1. Introduction by Charles Borkhuis (3:07)
2. Iflife (including the "poems" Pleasure, Ankles, & The Past is No Place for Someone Like You) (16:09)
3. Voice Play (named sections: Only One of Us is Henry James, Ideal Reader, Student Publication, Pound's Penis [aside], Epic Proportions, Theater of Cruelty, Husbands at Their Desks, Poetic Sex, Enemy Readers, How Much is That Poet in the Window, Faith Based Lyric, The Jack Spicer Memorial Neuron, Stein and Miss Murphy, Envoi) (7:28)
4. Veiled Portrait (0:54)
5. Untitled Says it All (0:23)
6. Habits of the Ancients (0:29)
7. Another (0:23)
8. Tank Top (sections: [opening, un-subtitled], Current Poetics, The Remote, Three Coins in a Fountain, Sunday Morning, Host, Mosul, Beating the Bushes) (11:46)

Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, March 24, 2007
1. Introduction (6:33): MP3
2. Perelman's Introduction (1:14): MP3
3. Here Here (8:13): MP3
4. Perelman discusses Playing Bodies (0:50): MP3
5. "1" from Playing Bodies (0:31): MP3
6. "2" from Playing Bodies (0:32): MP3
7. New Poem 1 (0:30): MP3
8. New Poem 2 (0:37): MP3
9. New Poem 3 (0:13): MP3
10. Liquid Assets (3:46): MP3
11. The Culture of Barbarism (3:21): MP3
12. New Poem 4 (0:28): MP3
13. New Poem 5 (0:34): MP3
14. New Poem 6 (0:23): MP3
15. New Poem 7 (0:27): MP3
16. New Poem 8 (0:28): MP3
17. New Poem 9 (0:33): MP3
18. New Poem 10 (0:50): MP3
19. Only One of Us is Henry James (2:30): MP3
20. Ideal Reader (0:11): MP3
21. Student Publication (0:15): MP3
22. Pound's Penis (aside) (0:51): MP3
23. Epic Proportions (0:13): MP3
24. "The past charming itself . . ." (1:07): MP3
25. Poetic Sex (1:04): MP3

complete reading (37:54):MP3

Book release party in celebration of IFLIFE, January 9, 2007

1. Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (5:16)
2. Introduction by Bob Perelman (2:38)
3. on "Against Shock and Awe" (1:22)
4. "Against Shock and Awe" (5:49)
5. on "The Revenge of the Bathwater" (0:56)
6. "The Revenge of the Bathwater" (5:51)
7. on "Or Not" (1:10)
8. "Or Not" (1:10)
9. on "The Dream of the Bed" (2:08)
10. "The Dream of the Bed" (3:18)
11. from "Iflife" (5:06)
12. from "Tanktop" (1:09)

You can also hear the entire recording (37:15)


from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008
"Oppen's Knowledge" (14:12): MP3


PoemTalk #16: Robert Creeley, "I Know A Man"
with Al Filreis, Randall Couch, Jessica Lowenthal Discussion (25:32): MP3

PoemTalk #15: Lyn Hejinian, "constant change figures"
with Al Filreis, Tom Devaney and Tom Mandel
Discussion (26:27): MP3

Segue Reading at Double Happiness NYC, February 17, 2001 Lecture on Pound at the Poets House, December 7, 2001
Part One (47:50): MP3
Part Two (43:24): MP3


Segue Reading at the Ear Inn May 24, 1986
Complete Reading (47:13): MP3
Talk on Good and Bad/ Good and Evil, May 20, 1985
First Part (32:18): MP3
Second Part (30:17): MP3
Third Part (32:48): MP3
Fourth Part (12:45): MP3


Talk on Pronouns Given at 578 Folsom as a Part of the Grand Piano Series, April 1, 1979
First Part (48:05): MP3
Second Part (48:30): MP3
Third Part (31:50): MP3


Talk on Style Given at 80 Langton St, San Francisco March 23, 1978
First Part (46:34): MP3
Second Part (46:47): MP3
Third Part (41:46): MP3


Talk Given at Intersection, San Francisco
Perelman discusses L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics, Literary History
First Part (53:39): MP3
Second Part (52:32): MP3

Also at PennSound:
At the Kelly Writers House, November 11, 2002: "Today's Lament" (4:08) Info File
At the "Finding the Words" post-9/11 event, November 7, 2001: Untitled (8:35)

• October 20, 2008: "Vintage Talks Curated By Bob Perelman"
• May 30, 2008: "Bob Perelman: Newly Segmented 2007 Segue Reading"