PhillyTalks 17, October 3, 2000

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Introduction by Louis Cabri (3:04)
Complete Discussion (40:49)

Lisa Robertson
Introduction to the Weather (3:16)
Monday (2:10)
Tuesday (7:06)
Wednesday (2:14)
Thursday (6:38)
Friday (9:16)
Saturday (4:02)

Steve McCaffrey
Pastorials Prologue Epilogue (4:20)
Shrubbery Perversion Rhapsody (0:39)
Smithfield the Greetles (2:28)
Poetry in the Pissoir Treatise 1 (3:50)
Poetry in the Pissoir Treatise 2 (0:44)
Poetry in the Pissoir Treatise 3 (3:10)
Poetry in the Pissoir Treatise 4 (1:19)
Poetry in the Pissoir Treatise 5 (4:08)
Poetry in the Pissoir Treatise 6 (2:17)
Ars Noetica (1:33)

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Lisa Robertson's books and chapbooks include The Apothecary (Tsunami 1991), XEclogue (Tsunami 1993; rev. New Star 1999), The Badge (The Berkeley Horse/Mindware 1994), The Descent (Meow 1996), Debbie: an epic (New Star 1997) and Soft Architecture: A Manifesto (Artspeak/Dazibao 1999). Her recent poetry and criticism appears in American Book Review, Big Allis, Boundary2, Mix, Nest: a magazine of interiors, Raddle Moon, Sulphur, Stand and West Coast Line. "From the office for Soft Architecture" is serialized in Front magazine (December 1999-ongoing). A selection from The Weather is published in W #1.

Steve McCaffery is the author of numerous books, including The Cheat of Words (ECW Press), The Black Debt (Nightwood Editions), North of Intention (Roof), and Panopticon (Blewointmentpress).

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Recording Engineer & Producer: Aaron Levy
Curator: Louis Cabri