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