Peter Gizzi

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• Photo:Robert Seydel

Close Listening

• Reading and Conversation at Art Radio WPS1 with Charles Bernstein, March 17, 2008
• Conversation (23:23): MP3
• Reading (26:30): MP3

• from Periplum and other poems (1987-1992)
• Thirty Sentencesfor No One (3:05): MP3
• Periplum (0:35) MP3

• from Artificial Heart (1998)
• Another day on the Pilgrimage (5:22) MP3
• Tous les Matins du Monde (1:09) MP3

• from Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003)
• Plain Song (2:14) MP3
• Beginning With a Phrase from Simone Weil (2:15) MP3

• from The Outernationale (2007)
• The Quest (0:32) MP3
• The Outernationale (2:18) MP3
• Untitled Amherst Specter (0:38) MP3
• Protest Song (0:38) MP3
• A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (7:43) MP3

• Close Listening Engineer: Jeannie Hooper.
• Additional technical support: Michael Hennessey

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Reading for Double Change, Paris, April 7, 2009

• film available from Double Change archives.

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

• reading "Leviathan" from Materials MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, New York, April 8, 2008

• Gizzi reads Oppen's "Leviathan" (1:10): MP3
• Gizzi reads Oppen's "World, World" (1:10): MP3
• Gizzi reads Oppen's "Power, Enchanted World" (2:15): MP3

Cross-Cultural Poetics, October 14, 2007

• Gizzi reads from and discusses The Outernationale.
  (29:55): MP3 (27MB)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 14, 2004

1. Introduction (1:43)
2. A History of the Lyric (5:34)

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
The ethics of dust
In the garden
To his wife far off in a time of war
A history of the lyric
Coda


3. A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (1 & 3) (3:44)
4. Add This to the House (0:46)
5. Chateau If (1:17)
6. In Defense of Nothing (0:34)
7. Overtakelessness (0:55)
8. Revival (6:13)

Reading with Elizabeth Willis, SUNY Buffalo, April 9, 2003

1. Introduction (3:04): MP3
2. Beginning with a Phrase by Simone Weil (3:00): MP3
3. A History of the Lyric: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear (2:17): MP3
4. A History of the Lyric: The ethics of dust (0:52): MP3
5. A History of the Lyric: In the garden (1:18): MP3
6. A History of the Lyric: To his wife far off in a time of war (0:30): MP3
7. A History of the Lyric (0:51): MP3
8. A History of the Lyric: Coda (0:31): MP3
9. Some Values of Landscape and Weather (4:40): MP3
10. Revival (7:41): MP3
11. In Defense of Nothing (0:37): MP3
12. Protest Song (1:20): MP3
• complete reading (27:43): MP3

Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001

1. introduction (0:45): MP3
2. Song Out of Mind, For, After, and By, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop (3:08): MP3
3. Tous Les Matins Du Monde (1:19): MP3
4. Lonely Tylenol (1:06): MP3
5. Ding Repair (5:07): MP3
6. Stars of Track and Field (1:32): MP3
7. Masters of Conte Jondo (1:23): MP3
8. Fin Amor (2:17): MP3
9. Beginning With a Phrase from Simone Weil (2:44): MP3

Reading at SUNY Buffalo, February 12, 1992

• complete reading (4:57): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

• Pierced (7:24): MP3

Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 2, 1993

1. The Locket (1:13): MP3
2. A Speaking Part (2:20): MP3
3. Utopia Parkway (1:59): MP3
4. Hard As Ash (11:16): MP3

complete reading (16:35): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, March 13, 1993

1. introduction (1:35): MP3
2. The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens (1:30): MP3
3. Sum Body (4:51): MP3
4. Still Life with Automobile (0:39): MP3
5. Lonely Tylenol (1:21): MP3
6. Periplum (1:37): MP3
7. The Locket (After the holiday the phone was silent) (1:46): MP3
8. The Locket (Here is the ashtray) (0:44): MP3
9. Periplum II (0:29): MP3
10. The Locket (Dear E. Who was that thin figure inhabiting a bedroom?) (0:44): MP3
11. Periplum III (0:25): MP3
12. The Locket (All the mirrors in the world) (0:46): MP3
13. Periplum IV (0:24): MP3
14. Song of the Liver (0:45): MP3
15. The Locket (Stay there O and forgive the usages known as speech) (0:41): MP3
16. Periplum V (0:24): MP3
17. The Locket (Next the composition insists on playing the game for keeps) (0:48): MP3
18. Periplum VI (0:37): MP3
19. Song of the Den (0:56): MP3
20. The Locket (This day black knee socks on a grey field) (0:47): MP3
21. Periplum VII (a valentine) (0:40): MP3
22. Dear Jack (2:08): MP3
23. Postcard (0:31): MP3
• complete recording (26:29): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, June 6, 1992

1. introduction (1:23): MP3
2. Asserted Abundance (2:18): MP3
3. Song of the Interior Begin (2:07): MP3
4. Mahler's 2nd (0:59): MP3
5. Mise en Scene (1:21): MP3
6. Periplum (0:33): MP3
7. Song of the Comparative Night (0:47): MP3
8. The Locket (Dear E. Who was that thin figure inhabiting a bedroom?) (0:41): MP3
9. Song of a Lexicon (0:28): MP3
10. Periplum IV (0:21): MP3
11. Blue Peter (3:27): MP3
12. Song of the Liver (0:44): MP3
13. The Locket (Stay there O and forgive the usages known as speech) (0:42): MP3
14. Capital (0:44): MP3
15. The Locket (This day black knee socks on a grey field) (1:23): MP3
16. Deux ex Machina (3:42): MP3
17. Song of an Acute Angle (0:31): MP3
18. Hard as Ash (9:21): MP3

complete reading (32:59): MP3

Also on Pennsound

• PhillyTalks, Episode #10 with Steven Farmer - March 1, 1999
• Peter Gizzi reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

Peter Gizzi on PennSound Daily

• May 23, 2008: "A New Close Listening, Reading, and Conversation with Peter Gizzi"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
and educational use only.Close Listening ©2008 by Charles Bernstein & Peter Gizzi. All rights to all the other recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2008 Peter Gizzi.

Used with permission of Peter Gizzi. Distributed by PennSound.