PennSound: Cole Swensen (original) (raw)
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PoemTalk #52, discussing Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers," May 3, 2012
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.
Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, March 11, 2017
- Jocelyn Spaar’s Introduction (03:21): MP3
- About On Walking On (00:41): MP3
- Rousseau: The Reveries Of A Solitary Walker (01:51): MP3
- Thoreau: Walking (01:36): MP3
- Sand: Promenades Autour d’un village (01:22): MP3
- Woolf: “Street Haunting” (01:45): MP3
- Walser: The Walk (01:20): MP3
- Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (01:23): MP3
- Robertson: “Seven Walks” (02:14): MP3
- On Karen Randall’s The Leyden Jar Project (01:10): MP3
- Thunderhouses (00:43): MP3
- The Leyden Jar (00:54): MP3
- The Kite (01:12): MP3
- Beatification (00:35): MP3
- The Electric Fortune Teller (00:47): MP3
- Montgolfière Balloon (01:12): MP3
- The Electric Kiss (01:10): MP3
- Gave (01:15): MP3
- Complete Recording (27:59): MP3
Reading for Double Change, Paris, December 20, 2010
- Audio available from Double Change archives.
Reading as part of the Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, Olympia, January 14, 2010
- Introduction and discussion of the Le Notre Gardens (5:12): MP3
- Brief note on the style of A Garden Is a Start (1:40): MP3
- A Garden Is a Start (3:12): MP3
- Discussion of the language of fact in poetry (8:05): MP3
- Paradise (0:56): MP3
- Discussion of gardens as dominion over nature (2:43): MP3
- Discussion of the geometry of the Le Notre gardens (3:38): MP3
- If a Garden of Numbers (1:23): MP3
- Introductory discussion to Versailles the Unfurled (2:53): MP3
- Versailles the Unfurled (3:56): MP3
- Dicussion of fountains and water as a public and private commdity (5:42): MP3
- Keeping Track of Distance (with a brief introduction) (1:40): MP3
- Closing comments (2:04): MP3
Complete Reading (43:03): MP3
"If a Garden of Numbers" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 52.
Reading as part of the Holloway Series, Berkeley, February 20, 2007
Reading as part of the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, November 17, 2006
- Complete reading (6:12): MP3
Reading as part of the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, January 8, 2005
- Introduction (03:28): MP3
- The Baroque Garden (00:55): MP3
- The Garden As Middle Ages (01:09): MP3
- On Vaux-le-Vicomte (00:28): MP3
- Further Notes on the Collusion of Time and Space (01:52): MP3
- If A Garden Of Numbers (01:21): MP3
- Vaux-le-Vicomte, Water (01:22): MP3
- Into Mirror Enter Air (00:51): MP3
- Labyrinths And Mazes (01:29): MP3
- Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) (01:31): MP3
- Euclid’s Eighth Theorem (01:10): MP3
- The Hand As Historical (00:39): MP3
- Hold (00:38): MP3
- Juggle (00:43): MP3
- The Hand As Anchor (00:28): MP3
- The Hand That Caresses (00:46): MP3
- The Hand As Origami ((00:27): MP3
- The Hand As Ideogram: MP3
- The Thumb: Based On (00:50): MP3
- The Intern’s Problem (00:56): The Intern's Problem
- The Fist (00:21): MP3
- Complete reading (24:43): MP3
"If a Garden of Numbers" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 52.
Reading as part of the Left Hand Reading Series, Boulder, April 7, 2000
Reading as part of the Left Hand Reading Series, Boulder, March 11, 1999
- Introduction (1:25): MP3
- How Photography Has Changed the Human Face (4:58): MP3
- Water Water (4:34): MP3
- A Thousand Ghost Stories About My Grandfather (1:45): MP3
- Is (2:40): MP3
- Blind Spot (3:03): MP3
- March 3 (2:23): MP3
- March: The Third Lesson (0:47): MP3
- March 15: Nocturne (0:46): MP3
- March 25, 1472-75: The Annunciation, Leonardo da Vinci (1:35): MP3
- May 30, 1427: Joan-not-yet-saint with Sheep (1:33): MP3
- August 1424: The First Dance Macabre (1:43): MP3
- August 1427: Abundance (1:13): MP3
- October 4, 1451: Paolo Uccello Examines the Sky (1:50): MP3
- October 28, 1449: The Translation of the Relics of St. Jean in Anticipation of the End of the Hundred Years' War (1:17): MP3 Complete reading (30:21): MP3
Wednesday Series: Cole Swenson and Linh Dinh, St. Mark’s Church, NY, January 27, 1999
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
Appearing at the New Coast Festival, New Freedoms, April 9, 1993
New Coast Reading, Buffalo, April 1, 1993
- Complete reading (18:45): MP3
- Somewhere (1:19): MP3
- Introductions to ‘Parks’ (1:16): MP3
- Six (0:21): MP3
- Eleven (0:24): MP3
- Fourteen (0:51): MP3
- Seventeen (0:10): MP3
- Six (1:14): MP3
- Eleven (1:07): MP3
- Fourteen (0:51): MP3
- Seventeen (0:52): MP3
- First (0:53): MP3
- One (0:31): MP3
- Thirteen (0:30): MP3
- Immediacy(0:56): MP3
- Garden (0:39): MP3
- Window (0:57): MP3
- Galleries (0:57): MP3
- Anamism (0:49): MP3
- Tourism (1:02): MP3
- A Theory of the Face (0:52): MP3
- Picture of Fire (0:44): MP3
- How Vast the Music is (1:15): MP3
- The Ones that are the Same (0:45): MP3
Reading for Incognito Lounge at Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, October 3, 1991
- Complete reading (28:14): MP3
- Opening Remarks (0:52): MP3
- Three (1:08): MP3
- Six (1:06): MP3
- Seven (0:54): MP3
- Eleven (1:04): MP3
- Thirteen (0:58): MP3
- Sixteen (0:39): MP3
- Introduction to Oar (0:32): MP3
- Oar (0:32): MP3
- A Ghazal and a Precesion (0:43): MP3
- The Ghazal of Enough Time (0:40): MP3
- Ghazal of Many Edges (0:43): MP3
- A Ghazal Suspended at Night (0:29): MP3
- A Ghazal for Recent Ships (0:36): MP3
- Ghazal of Where We’ve Gone (0:43): MP3
- Cathedral (0:43): MP3
- An Insomniac Does All Walk Through Hallways (0:39): MP3
- Hazal Photographing Fire (0:43): MP3
- Last (0:47): MP3
- The Other War (1:00): MP3
- Watching (0:30): MP3
- Fan (1:16): MP3
- Tracing (0:53): MP3
- Still a Narrative(1:07): MP3
- Irrevoke (0:47): MP3
- Tourism (1:19): MP3
- Delta(0:36): MP3
- Took(1:12): MP3
- Running Water (0:52): MP3
- Now my Uncle Talks to Himself(1:14): MP3
- Line (0:36): MP3
- How Vast Music is (2:16): MP3
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