Thanks to the work of Luisa Healey, PennSound staffer, we have now segmented (into audio clips arranged by topic) the “Close Listening” conversation Charles Bernstein hosted with Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge in 2006. PennSound’s Berssenbrugge author page is HERE. And here are the segments:
Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, April 28, 2006
READING
Berssenbrugge reads from I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (University of California Press, 2006)
- Complete program (30:15): MP3
CONVERSATION
- On early encounters with poetry and language (5:17): MP3
- On the significance of place and environment (5:25): MP3
- On the boundary between the physical and energetic (3:40): MP3
- On form and line length (3:19): MP3
- On writing “I Love Artists” (10:49): MP3
- Complete conversation (28:23): MP3
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. He is currently writing a book on the art & avant-garde of 1960. He has taught a massive open online course, "
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