Commentaries

John Richetti performs Andrew Marvell

afilreis — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:26:14 +0000

John Richetti visited PennSound’s studios the other day to record some poems of John Milton (in addition to large chunks of Paradise Lost, which he had already recorded) and also to create a new Andrew Marvell page. Here are the poems he chose:

On a drop of dew (pp. 6-7) (2:02): MP3
Bermudas (p. 12) (1:58): MP3
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun (pp. 16-19) (5:25): MP3
To His Coy Mistress (pp. 21-22) (2:20): MP3
The Definition of Love (pp. 34-36) (1:41): MP3
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers (pp. 36-37) (2:08): MP3
The Mower Against Gardens (pp. 42-43) (2:13): MP3
Damon the Mower (pp. 43-46) (4:21): MP3
The Garden (pp. 51-53) (3:41): MP3
On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost (pp. 64-66) (3:22): MP3
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (pp. 118-21) (5:05): MP3
Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax (pp. 79-107) (35:23): MP3

New at PennSound

afilreis — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:26:18 +0000

clockwise from top left: Erica Hunt, David Bromige, Bruce Andrews, Laynie Browne, Brian Ang, Kathy Acker, Alice Notley, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian.

We at PennSound have been especially busy in the past few months. Today seemed like the right day to take a look back to our recent acquisitions. So on the front page of Jacket2, in the PennSound box, we published a list of, and links to, these new recordings. You can also have a look at the list here.

Laurie Anderson, 2003

afilreis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:43:43 +0000

Laurie Anderson visited the Writers House in 2003. On the third day of her visit, I interviewed her for an hour or so, and here are segments of the recording:

introduction by Al Filreis (3:19): MP3
on the Nerve Bible and the body (4:06): MP3
on the autobiographical nature of the Nerve Bible (1:57): MP3
on time and responsibility (4:34): MP3
on ending but not concluding performances (2:28): MP3
on performing Statue of Liberty at the 2001 Town Hall performance (8:20): MP3
on starting out as an artist and being in a commune (7:49): MP3
on technology and media (8:57): MP3
on Puppet Motel (2:52): MP3
Anderson's favorite contemporary poets (6:37): MP3
on the impossibility of technology being sensually subtle (6:27): MP3
on Melville's bible and Songs and Stories from Moby Dick (8:33): MP3
on whether or not people are getting better (3:51): MP3