Reading at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, March 21, 1974
1. Introduction by George Oppen (4:45): MP3 , text
2. Reading by Charles Reznikoff (49:27): MP3 , RealAudio

Individual poems:
1. (23) "Salmon and red wine" (00:40)
2. (21) "I have neither the time nor the weaving skill, perhaps," (00:24)
3. (3) "When the sky, the water over the sandy bottom is green" (00:20)
4. (13) Building Boom (00:30)
   a. "The avenue of willows leads nowhere:"
5. (7) "The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase," (00:08)
6. (69) "Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies" (00:09)
7. (10) "These days the papers in the street" (00:18)
8. (24) "Scrap of paper" (00:08)
9. (41) "Of course, we must die." (00:12)
10. (17) "Rails in the subway," (00:09)
11. (XVIII) "This subway station" (00:15)
12. (39) "What are you doing in our street" (00:09)
13. (42) "Permit me to warn you" (00:06)
14. (20) "As I was wandering with my unhappy thoughts" (00:28)
15. (XXVII) "On a Sunday, when the place was closed," (00:15)
16. (45) "Fraser, I think, tells of a Roman," (00:15)
17. (32) "The hillside facing the river" (00:33)
18. (XII) Rainy Season (00:13)
   a. "It has been raining for three days."
19. (7) Scrubwoman (00:15)
   a. "One shoulder lower,"
20. (4) "The pedlar who goes from shop to shop," (00:11)
21. (5) "The winter afternoon darkens." (00:10)
22. (XVII) "The elevator man, working long hours" (00:13)
23. (XXV) "The young fellow walks about" (00:29)
24. (9) "Showing a torn sleeve," (00:14)
25. (7) "Two girls of twelve or so at a table" (00:37)
26. (8) from Depression (01:04)
   a. "simple soul, who so early in the morning..."
   b. "in the drizzle"
27. (9) "The shop girls leave their work" (00:12)
28. (28) Millinery District (00:10)
   a. "Many fair hours have been buried here"
29. (XXIII) Cooper Union Library (00:18)
30. (11) "You must not suppose" (00:09)
31. (XXVI) "I am always surprised to meet," (00:22)
32. (10) "The new janitor is a Puerto Rican;" (01:15)
33. (13) "Most of the stock in the hardware store" (01:43)
34. (11) "The Chinese girl in the waiting-room..." (00:21)
35. (28) "During the Second World War," (01:31)
36. (50) Fable (00:24)
   a. "It is very pleasant to walk in the woods"
37. (3) "One of my sentinels, a tree," (00:10)
38. (1) "I have not even been in the fields," (00:08)
39. (48)"Blurred sight and trembling fingers-" (00:15)
40. (I) Heart and Clock (00:)
   a. "Now the sky begin to turn"
41. (II) "If my days were like the ants," (00:)
42. (62) "The clock" (00:)
43. (63) "My hair was caught in the wheels of a clock" (00:33)
44. (12) "Hardly a breath of wind," (00:14)
45. (19) "After I had worked all day" (00:09)
46. (22) Te Deum (00:07)
   a. "Not because of victories"
47. (II) "Amelia was just fourteen" (01:10)
48. (4) Testimony (01:38)
   a. "The company had advertised"
49. (11) from New Nation (00:37)
   a. (I) "Land of Refuge"
      i. "the sky is cloud on cloud"
50. (11) from New Nation (00:33)
   a. (II) "Brief History"
      i. "the bells of Philadelphia are ringing"
51. (74) The English in Virginia, April 1607 (01:10)
   a. "They landed"
52. (20) Samuel (01:11)
   a. "All day I am before the altar"
53. (15) From the Apocalyptic Ezra (03:10)
   a. "Because I saw the desolation of Zion,"
54. (7) "The highway I was walking on" (03:33)
55. (14) "Horsefly," (00:06)
56. (27) "A row of brownstone buildings-" (00:32)
57. (17) "God saw Adam in a town" (00:15)
58. The Bastard (03:29)
59. (3) from Autobiography: Hollywood (00:36)
   a. "I like the streets of New York City,"

All poems in this reading are from The Collected Poems of Charles Reznikoff.

Original recording by the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. PennSound publication made with thanks to the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University for their archival work.


Interviews with Reinhold Schiffer, SUNY Buffalo, 1974*
First Segment (30:44): MP3
Second Segment (31:29): MP3
Third Segment (30:40): MP3
Fourth Segment (31:26): MP3

* Please note that this is an informal recording; the interviews are not complete and are often cut off prematurely. Tapes available courtesy Stephen Fredman.

From The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
1. from Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down ("The young fellow walks about...") (0:32): MP3
2. from By the Well of Living and Seeing ("You must not suppose...") (0:12): MP3
3. Love Story (3:47): MP3

• December 26, 2007: "Charles Reznikoff: Poetry and Interviews 1967-1975"

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