Keith Waldrop

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Art International Radio, operating at ARTonAIR.org, November 5, 2009

1. Introduction (0:59): MP3
2. on his earliest experiences with poetry (2:46): MP3
3. on how Christianity figures into his work (3:47): MP3
4. on going into the army (1:20): MP3
5. on the fictional memoir (1:27): MP3
6. on his literary affiliations and affinities (6:52): MP3
7. on The Locality Principle (2:36): MP3
8. on his interest in collage (7:51): MP3
9. on his translations (2:02): MP3

Reading with Rosmarie Waldrop at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2009

1. Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (3:48): MP3
2. Sarah Dowling Introduces Rosmarie Waldrop (2:58): MP3
3. Rosemarie Waldrop: Lawn of Excluded Middle (from Curves to the Apple) (7:57): MP3
4. Rosemarie Waldrop: Time Ravel (7:54): MP3
5. Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop read "Light Travels" (4:22): MP3
6. Sarah Dowling Introduces Keith Waldrop (1:35): MP3
7. Keith Waldrop Reads from The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (23:58): MP3, YouTube [excerpt]

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 17, 2009

Reading for Poems for the Millenium Vol. III, Harvard University, March 30, 2009

1. from John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale (5:58): MP3
2. from Charles Baudelaire, To the Reader (3:35): MP3
3. from Charles Baudelaire, The Bad Glazier (7:17): MP3
4. from Charles Baudelaire, The Dog and the Flask (1:26): MP3
5. from Charles Baudelaire, Invitation to the Voyage (7:38): MP3

Complete reading (1:59:24): MP3, MOV

Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001

1. Introduction (1:37): MP3
2. Island Fire by John Hawkes (2:13): MP3
3. introduction to Elegy (0:59): MP3
4. Elegy I (1:47): MP3
5. Elegy II (2:01): MP3
6. Elegy III (3:24): MP3
7. Elegy IV (2:02): MP3
8. Elegy V (1:41): MP3
9. Elegy VI (1:23): MP3
10. Elegy VII (2:24): MP3
11. Elegy VIII (2:32): MP3

Reading with Rosmarie Waldrop

12. Light Travels (3:47): MP3

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

1. Benediction (4:49): MP3
2. The Life Before (1:02): MP3
3. Don Juan in Hell (1:35): MP3
4. Giantess (1:11): MP3
5. Carrion (2:45): MP3
6. Posthumous Remorse (1:10): MP3
7. Invitation to the Voyage (2:09): MP3
8. Spleen (1:23): MP3
9. Danse Macabre (4:35): MP3
10. A Voyage to Cythera (4:16): MP3
11. To Her Too Merry (1:47): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, December 12, 1992

• Complete recording (25:51): MP3

1. Introduction (0:41): MP3
2. Waldrop talking about the first section of "A House Seen from Nowhere" (0:37): MP3
3. The palmer worm (1:12): MP3
4. Transparent like the air (1:27): MP3
5. The idle wheel (0:49): MP3
6. A slightly arched form (0:35): MP3
7. A higher spin (0:50): MP3
8. A turning road (2:30): MP3
9. Cues to distance (1:03): MP3
10. Waldrop talking about the second section of "A House Seen from Nowhere" (0:31): MP3
11. "A bank of cloud across the sky..." (0:39): MP3
12. "Ghastly misprint..." (0:50): MP3
13. "Her hair is combed back..." (1:13): MP3
14. "I am not tired..." (0:30): MP3
15. "imagine this as the Chinese have imagined it..." (0:40): MP3
16. "I need to know..." (0:38): MP3
17. "The moment I saw her..." (0:17): MP3
18. "The second death..." (0:09): MP3
19. "There is a kind of lizard..." (0:30): MP3
20. "The unknown quantity..." (0:08): MP3
21. "The web of cracks in the sidewalk..." (0:07): MP3
22. "What the spirit says..." (0:10): MP3
23. Waldrop talking about the third section of "A House Seen from Nowhere" (0:45): MP3
24. Epigraph from "The Tale of Genji" (0:11): MP3
25. A House Seen from Nowhere: Part 3 (7:16): MP3

• Complete reading (41:02): MP3

1. Introduction (3:47): MP3
2. Conversion (2:19): MP3
3. To Rosemary in Bad Kissingen (2:49): MP3
4. Around the block (2:00): MP3
5. Progressing (1:40): MP3
6. Intervals (5:27): MP3
7. Water Marks (8:01): MP3
8. A fantasy upon the last days of summer (3:49): MP3
9. The quest for Mount Misery #10 (3:16): MP3
10. Shipwreck in Haven: the sixth transcendental study (6:34): MP3

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

1. La Notion d'Obstacle (Gallimard, 1978) (31:38): MP3
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): MP3
Waldrop reads from his translation, Objects Contain the Infinite (Windsor VT: Awede, 1995).

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York. May 5, 1979

Keith Waldrop on PennSound Daily

• November 19, 2009: "PennSound Congratulates Keith Waldrop"
• November 18, 2009: "Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop: Kelly Writers House Reading and New Close Listening Programs"

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