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Larry Eigner
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Jennifer Bartlett on Larry Eigner, Gloucester Writers Center, November 29, 2014
Complete recording (1:14:43): MP3
Last Public Reading, Sacred Materials, Cloud House Poetry Archives, November 17, 1995
Eigner reads from Gertrude Stein's Three Lives at the 1995 Gertrude Stein Marathon, Berkeley, curated by Lyn Hejinian. Read the Kush's account, and Stein's text, here.
Complete Recording (11:39): MP3
Interview with Jack Foley on WKPFA, Berkeley, CA March 9, 1994
Complete recording (58:54): MP3Program exerpts
1. Eigner reads "Again dawn" (0:29): MP3
Again dawn
the sky dropped
its
invisible whiteness
we
saw pass out
nowhere
empty
the blue
stars
our summer
on
the ground
like
last night another
time
in
fragments
[text: Collected Eigner, II:357]
2. Eigner's remarks after reading "Again dawn" begin with his commenting on not recalling exactly what the poem meant. Charles Bernstein has transcribed this short section (0:30): MP3Well I forget what I meant and ...
disappointed, I guess. You know my mother said to me to communicate you must speak clear ...
first of all ... though I soon realized that immediacy and force take priority.
complete recording (31:15): MP3Reading at Larry Blake's House, San Francisco, April 3, 1986
Eigner reading on November 28, 1978
Complete Reading (31:22): MP3
Recording courtesy of Ron Silliman
Around new/sound daily/means, Selected poems, S Press Tape No. 37, recorded by Michael Kohler at Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1 and 11 July 1974
- Dying (0:38): MP3
- A Structured Field (0:11): MP3
- A Temporary Language (0:20): MP3
- Love Children (0:09): MP3
- Magnetic Lines (0:11): MP3
- Common Sense (0:32): MP3
- Tolstoi's Kept On (0:28): MP3
- To Negotiate (0:13): MP3
- Music is Human (0:19): MP3
- Unyielding Rock (0:37): MP3
- Paper (0:32): MP3
- The Sky (0:15): MP3
- Snow Flakes (0:26): MP3
- Trees Stand (0:22): MP3
- Time Flies (0:06): MP3
- Birds (0:33): MP3
- How Much a Squirrel (0:37): MP3
- The Sun Goes (0:17): MP3
- The Cat's Ears (0:27): MP3
- You Gotta Have Steam (0:38): MP3
- At Death Olson's (1:31): MP3
- Tribute to Cage (1:25): MP3
- Around the Frames (0:15): MP3
- Open Road (0:12): MP3
- Enough New (0:11): MP3
- Contact Communication (0:12): MP3
- Everybody Dies (0:04): MP3
Eigner's Poetry Read by David Gitin for Writers and Writing, KPFA, 10-19-70
- Musical Introduction (7:30): MP3
- Introduction (3:49): MP3
- Part 1: Road Side, Parts of Salem, From the Sustaining Air, B (3:53): MP3
- Part 2: A house divided, from Farther North, from Partition, from Denise Levertov's Introduction, The Fine Life (7:10): MP3
- Part 3: Do the Dogs Know Why They Bark, Out, Parell, Glass, Birthday, The wind like an ocean, For Sleep (6:25): MP3
- Part 4: After all the singing faces, Stoa, Keep Me Still for I Do Not Want to Dream, Again Dawn, Loneliness,
Thick and Fast, The Twigs, Gravity Getting Me Down, The Wandering Mosquito (6:48): MP3 - Part 5: Live bird which sings, She Who Would Risk the War, The discursive, The fountain of youth is a poetry,
After a Song by Samuel Barber, I have felt it as they've said, glimpse, Deep valleys, The Disappearance of Matter, Slow is the Poem (5:49): MP3 - Part 6: Children's Sizes are Indeterminate, At Least the Chair Makes Some Noise It's Mysterious, Towards Autumn, June 30th-July 2nd, #411, #416, #427, #428 (6:15): MP3
- Conclusion (6:51): MP3
Also of interest
- Eigner tribute at UC-Berkeley, Nov. 19, 2010 (YouTube)
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the readers. © 2008 by the Estate of Larry Eigner. Used with permission of the Estate of Larry Eigner. Distributed by PennSound.