Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth on Ted Greenwald

Charles Bernstein
Photo © Charles Bernstein, November 5, 2012

I’m sorry I can’t be there tonight. But sorrier still anyone has to be there. Our dear friend Ted is gone, but books and memories remain.

Tom Raworth's As When: A Selection, forthcoming from Carcanet

Charles Bernstein
image by Tom Raworth

As When

A Selection

Tom Raworth

Edited by Miles Champion

 


As When is the selection I have waited for—the whole spread of a great poet’s work.- Fanny Howe

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Tom Raworth, Listen Up (2003)

Charles Bernstein

MP3 (from Kelly Writers House, March 13, 2006)

LISTEN UP

Why should we listen to Hans Blix
and all those other foreign pricks:
the faggot French who swallow snails
and kiss the cheeks of other males:

State of error (PoemTalk #50)

Tom Raworth, 'Errory'

PoemTalk

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For our 50th episode, Charles Bernstein, Michael Hennessey, and Marjorie Perloff gathered at the Kelly Writers House to talk about Tom Raworth’s poem, “Errory.”  The poem was published in Clean & Well Lit in 1996, and has been reprinted in the Carcanet Press Collected Poems (2003). Our recording of “Errory” comes from audio material produced in 2004 by the Contemporary Poetics Research Center (CPRC) at Birkbeck College of the University of London, and we thank Colin Still for making these recordings available to PennSound.

Here is the CPRC/PennSound recording of Raworth performing “Errory,” at somewhat more than his usual breakneck speed. Listen to “Out of a Sudden,” for instance — from the same recording session — and you'll notice a more deliberate pace. <--break- />

February 28, 2012

A very Raworth Christmas (card)

with Tom Raworth's commentary

Charles Bernstein

Sonic thresholds

Transitions and transformations

Eric Baus
Image by Noah Saterstrom.

This post’s playlist presents recordings from the PennSound archive that explore the continuum between language, music, and other types of sound.

I want to begin with a few related recordings of Nathaniel Mackey and his ongoing serial poem Song of the Andoumboulou. In Mackey’s introduction to a 1997 KWH reading he discusses the poem’s relationship to the Dogon funeral song of the same name, recorded by Francois Di Dio in 1974. Listen to Mackey’s poem Song of the Andoumboulou: 18. I am always struck by this moment  when, near the end of the Dogon recording, as the pitch from the horn wavers up and down, I hear an ambiguity between what could be perceived as a human shout and the sound of a musical instrument. It’s this type of threshold point that has been in the back of my mind when I listen to poetry recordings lately.

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