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Steve McCaffery

 

Interviewed by Charles Bernstein on LINEbreak (1995)
part 1 (29:05) : MP3
part 2 (29:00) : MP3



Segue Series Reading with Dick Higgins at the Ear Inn, February 7, 1979
1. "Four Statements for Charles Bernstein" (1:45) : MP3
2. "Sonnet" (0:40) : MP3
3. Poem beginning "You can say anything you want to..." (0:46) : MP3 MP3
5. "The" (1:46): MP3
6. Engineering Koans (various) (6:14) : MP3
7. "The Parables" (3:43) : MP3
8. Short Pieces beginning with "Deep Vinegar" (various) (4:08) : MP3

with Paul Dutton and Rafael Barreto-Rivera (also members of The Four Horsemen)
9. "Mushy Pea: Six London Texts" (6:03) : MP3

10. "The Precepts" (3:35) : MP3
11. "This piece starts about 4 Inches down from the top and about 3 and half inches in..." (2:20) : MP3
12. A Selection of untitled 'Transforms' (6:01) : MP3

complete reading (37:39): MP3

See also, the Six Fillious Reading, featuring McCaffery, which took place immediately prior to his reading.


Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, November 6, 1997
1. Introduction (1:48)
2. The Printer to the Reader (5:33) (from Theory of Sediment, 1991)
3. Little Hans (3:03)
4. To Never Leave the Feeding Hand Unbitten (2:09)
5. Sin Having Settled (2:03) (from Proper Names)
6. The Baker Transformation (5:39)
7. What As Poetic (4:58) (a gift to Charles Bernstein)
8. Namings (14:00)
9. A Picture (4:50) (from Panopticon)
    read with Karen Mac Cormack
10. The Curve To Its Answer (4:01) (from Theory of Sediment)
11. The Word (4:00) (from Panopticon)


Reading at the Kelly Writers House with Jed Rasula, April 4, 2000
1. Introduction by Bob Perelman (2:49)
2. Introductory remarks (12:38)
3. Steve McCaffery and Jed Rasula read their work (49:42)
4. Q & A on Imagining Language (32:03)


McCaffery singles
Coleridge in Calgary (3:25)
from Some Versions of Pastoral (4:21)
Sin Having Settled (2:03)
Suggestion But No Insult (1:22)
The Baker Transformation (6:40)
What As Poetic (4:48)
The Kommunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want (5:54) TEXT
Cappucino (2:01) (RealAudio)



Also of interest:
On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz: MP3 (17:00)
from The Curve To Its Answer, Jan. 11, 1985 (5:10) (Live at the Ear)
from Carnival, Panel 2 (5:36) (Carnivocal, 1999) (plus: Carnival text at Coach House)
Carnival, Panel 1 (21:33) (Buffalo, 1997) (plus: Carnival text at Coach House)
"What's the Word" program #163 - Contemporary Language Poetry (29:11): mp3
     Modern Language Association, 2003
     Produced by Sally Placksin
PhillyTalks Episode #17 with Lisa Robertson - October 3, 2000
Four Horsemen: tracks from Canadada & Live From the West
McCaffery on Live at the Ear, a compilation from Elemenope Productions, 1994

 

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