Benjamin Hollander

Reading at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, Friday, January 17, 2014

Talk with Ammiel Alcalay on Translation and Poetic Identity in the Age of Identity Politics, Bard College, Novenber 18, 2013

1. Poetic imagination and politics (6:29): MP3
2. Monolingualism in American literary culture, the need for a multilingual consciousness, and language as alien (6:40): MP3
3. Ben Hollander reading Clear, Concise, Correct: A Drama (5:14): MP3
4. English as a second language and as a soverign language (2:41): MP3
5. on In the House Un-American (2:36): MP3
6. on Language and reimagination, our index of imagery, and writing for a non-American audience (5:40): MP3
7. on The way image-makers respond to crisis, the lack of preparedness, and friendships as a frontline against propoganda (7:04): MP3
8. The normalizing of difference (2:46): MP3
9. Physicality in relation to the modalities by which public discourses are created (8:09): MP3
10. The projection of the image and the nexus between art, imagination, and magic (5:56): MP3
11. Language that stretches across cultural boundaries (2:40): MP3
12. Multiplicity as permissible and the domestication of fantasy (8:13): MP3
13. Sameness and difference in relation to writing and translation (7:29): MP3
14. Poetic thinking as being in between events and translation as cultural invention (4:19): MP3
15. on From the Warring Factions and how the work of translators is absorbed by other writers (5:45): MP3
16. on Difference and transmission (6:07): MP3
17. on Allegiance and community (5:19): MP3
18. on Cultural multiplicity (6:47): MP3

Reading with Ammiel Alcalay Reading, Special Views of History, Bard College, November 18, 2013

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Reading at Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, May 22, 2013

Complete recording (1:19:31): MP3

Reading from Levinas and the Police, The Unitarian Center, San Francisco, September 20, 2001

Complete recording (1:08:42): MP3

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Un-American Poetry: Conversation with Murat Nemet-Nejat, Ben Hollander, and Ammiel Alcalay, Kelly Writers House, March 22, 2001

Ben Hollander Reading (20:58): MP3

Complete recording (33:00): MP3

Panel, "The Whole Matter of the Human: Voicing Difference in Poetry," San Francisco State University, November 5, 1994

Complete recording (1:03:06): MP3

Writing the Margin: This is Not a Talk with David Levi-Strauss, Intersection, November 3, 1987

Also on PennSound:

• Steven Dickison talks about publishing Benjamin Hollander's Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli on Cross-Cultural Poetics Episode #34 (1:02:12): MP3

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