Bob Perelman

Photo: © 2007 Chalres Bernstein/PennSound

Studio 111 recording session at the University of Pennsylvania,
January 27, 2004
Click here for three pictures of the Studio 111 session.

A Conversation with Bob Perelman (56:31), with host Charles Bernstein and questions from Penn students:
MP3 , RealAudio

Studio 111 Reading
1. "An Autobiography" (7:28)
2. On "An Autobiography" (0:45)
3. "The Unruly Child" (1:26)
4. On "The Unruly Child" (0:30)
5. "Let's Say" (2:06)
6. "Praise & Blame" (4:06)
7. On "Praise & Blame" (0:52)
8. "Chronic Meanings" (5:21)
9. On "Chronic Meanings" (1:22)
10. "The Manchurian Candidate" (19:28)
11. "Confession" (2:59)
12. "Revenge of the Bathwater" (4:45)
13. "The Dream of the Bed" (3:02)
14. "Here 2" (5:47)

Credits: Selections 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, & 11, Ten to One: Selected Poems: (Wesleyan University Press, 1999). Copyright © 1999 by Bob Perelman.

Studio 111 Producer: Charles Bernstein
from Patrick Dillon

1. In a Nutshell (1:11)
2. The Avant Garde (3:34)
3. The Library: January 28 (2:36)
4. Confession (3:12)
5. Chaim Soutine (5:24)
6. The Manchurian Candidate: A Remake (21:25)
7. Symmetry of Past and Future (8:42)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania: "Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism", October 14, 2000

1. Introduction by Al Filreis (2:44)
2. Introductory remarks (1:59)
3. About Louis Zukofsky (14:05)
4. "Not Me" and reading from Zukofsky (6:55)
5. "Catalyst" and "Virgil's Fourth Eclogue" (20:03)

To hear the full recording of the program, click here.

Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 11, 2006

Full Reading (42:03)
1. Introduction by Charles Borkhuis (3:07)
2. Iflife (including the "poems" Pleasure, Ankles, & The Past is No Place for Someone Like You) (16:09)
3. Voice Play (named sections: Only One of Us is Henry James, Ideal Reader, Student Publication, Pound's Penis [aside], Epic Proportions, Theater of Cruelty, Husbands at Their Desks, Poetic Sex, Enemy Readers, How Much is That Poet in the Window, Faith Based Lyric, The Jack Spicer Memorial Neuron, Stein and Miss Murphy, Envoi) (7:28)
4. Veiled Portrait (0:54)
5. Untitled Says it All (0:23)
6. Habits of the Ancients (0:29)
7. Another (0:23)
8. Tank Top (sections: [opening, un-subtitled], Current Poetics, The Remote, Three Coins in a Fountain, Sunday Morning, Host, Mosul, Beating the Bushes) (11:46)

Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, March 24, 2007 (37:54): MP3

Book release party in celebration of IFLIFE,
January 9, 2007

1. Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (5:16)
2. Introduction by Bob Perelman (2:38)
3. on "Against Shock and Awe" (1:22)
4. "Against Shock and Awe" (5:49)
5. on "The Revenge of the Bathwater" (0:56)
6. "The Revenge of the Bathwater" (5:51)
7. on "Or Not" (1:10)
8. "Or Not" (1:10)
9. on "The Dream of the Bed" (2:08)
10. "The Dream of the Bed" (3:18)
11. from "Iflife" (5:06)
12. from "Tanktop" (1:09)

You can also hear the entire recording (37:15)

Also at PennSound:
At the Kelly Writers House, November 11, 2002: "Today's Lament" (4:08) Info File
At the "Finding the Words" post-9/11 event, November 7, 2001: Untitled (8:35)

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004 Bob Perelman. Studio 111 conversation © 2004 Bob Perelman/Charles Bernstein. Used with permission of Bob Perelman. Distributed by PennSound.