Keith Waldrop

Reading with Claude Royet-Journoud at the Ear Inn, New York, November 3, 1984

1. La Notion d'Obstacle (Gallimard, 1978) (31:38)
Keith Waldrop reads from his translation,The Notion of Obstacle (Windsor: Awede Press, 1978)
Note: Royet-Journoud placed a ticking clock on the podium, which can be heard in the recording.

2. Les Objets Contiennent l'Infini (Gallimard, 1983), Book 3 (prose section) (2:54)
Waldrop reads from his translation, Objects Contain the Infinite (Windsor VT: Awede, 1995).


Reading at the Ear Inn, New York. May 5, 1979
Complete Recording (17:46)


Reading from his translations of Charles Baudelaire' s Flowers of 
Evil (Wesleyan) on November 23, 2006.

1. Benediction (4:49)
2. The Life Before (1:02)
3. Don Juan in Hell (1:35)
4. Giantess (1:11)
5. Carrion (2:45)
6. Posthumous Remorse (1:10)
7. Invitation to the Voyage (2:09)
8. Spleen (1:23)
9. Danse Macabre (4:35)
10. A Voyage to Cythera (4:16)
11. To Her Too Merry (1:47)

Recorded and edited by Steve Evans.

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