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Poems for the Millennium I

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
September 28, 1998

Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg read selections from Poems for the Millennium, a two-volume anthology published by the University of California Press, which they coedited. The editors, and guest readers Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Bob Perelman, performed excerpts from a number of poems in the anthology (tracks 2 to 22) followed by readings of recent works of the editors' own (tracks 23 to 34).

Introduction by Al Filreis (11:30): MP3
2. Aime Cesaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, read by Rothenberg (0:19): MP3
3. Paul Celan, Threadsuns, read by Joris (0:18): MP3
4. Robert Duncan, Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow, read by Rothenberg (1:15): MP3
5. Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness, read by Joris (1:06): MP3
6. John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, read by Rothenberg (2:10): MP3
7. Guy Debord, All the King's Men, read by Joris (1:17): MP3
8. Marie Louise Kaschnitz, Who Would Have Thought It, read by Rothenberg (1:49): MP3
9. Adonis, Preface to the Pages of Night and Day, read by Joris (1:17): MP3
10. Alice Notley, Desamere, read by Rothenberg (2:15): MP3
11. Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, read by Joris (1:01): MP3
12. Fujii Sadakazu, Where is Japanese Poetry, read by Rothenberg (2:31): MP3
13. Diane DiPrima, Rant, read by Joris (1:59): MP3
14. Andrei Voznesensky, Back into the Future, read by Rothenberg (0:25): MP3
15. Ted Berrigan, People of the Future, read by Joris (0:15): MP3
16. T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, read by Blau DuPlessis (3:11): MP3
17. Jackson MacLow, The Pronouns, read by Perelman (1:09): MP3
18. George Oppen, Myth of the Blaze, read by Blau DuPlessis (2:27): MP3
19. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Aller, read by Perelman (3:20): MP3
20. William Carlos Williams, Spring and All, read by Blau DuPlessis (1:49): MP3
21. Inger Christensen, Alphabet, read by Joris (3:37): MP3
22. Maria Sabina, The Midnight Velada, read by Rothenberg (4:13): MP3
23. Rothenberg's Lorca Variations read by the author (3:30): MP3
24. Rothenberg's Three Paris Elegies read by the author (7:40): MP3
25. Rothenberg's Night Poems for Jackson MacLow read by the author (8:45): MP3
26. Joris' Winnetou Old read by the author (7:05): MP3
27. Joris' Deja Vu All Over Again read by the author (1:41): MP3
28. Joris' Obit for Paz read by the author (1:21): MP3
29. Joris' Ode or Nearly Here read by the author (3:09): MP3
30. Joris' In the Nomad House read by the author (0:16): MP3
31. Joris' Notes Toward a Nomadic Community (0:53): MP3
32. Joris' Return to Kairouan read by the author (1:26): MP3
33. Joris' Untitled (0:23): MP3
34. Joris' Seesaw (0:29): MP3



Poems for the Millennium III
Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York
March 29, 2009

A launch and reading for Poems for the Millennium III,
The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry,
edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson.

Like its two twentieth-century predecessors, Poems for the Millennium I & II, this gathering sets forth a globally decentered approach to the poetry of the preceding century from an experimental and visionary perspective. Joining Rothenberg and Robinson in the reading and performance are Charles Bernstein, Bob Holman, Pierre Joris, Cecilia Vicuña, and Anne Waldman. Unfortunately, there were technical difficulties during the recording of this event, and therefore some of the following selections begin partly into the individual's reading or are prematurely curtailed.


1. Introduction (1:59): MP3
2. Jerome Rothenberg (3:01): MP3
3. Pierre Joris (13:23): MP3
4. Anne Waldman (16:25): MP3
5. Jeffrey Robinson (13:29): MP3
6. Cecilia Vicuña (16:09): MP3
7. Bob Holman (10:26): MP3
8. Charles Bernstein (only intro salvaged, followed by Joris reading Baudelaire's "Be Drunken" in French) (3:21): MP3
9. Bernstein (from 3/14/09 recording at Segue/BPC), "Be Drunken" (1:57): MP3
10. Rothenberg, reads from Rimbaud's "Farewell" and Lear (4:10): MP3




Also of interest:
Other Jerome Rothenberg PennSound recordings
Other Pierre Joris PennSound recordings

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All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors. © 1998 Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Pierre Joris, Bob Perelman, and Jerome Rothenberg. Used with the permission of Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg. Distributed by PennSound.