KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Charles Reznikoff Memorial Reading, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

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Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1976.03.20.A

Program Length

82 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1976-03-29 | broadcast
| 1976-03-20 | created

Genres

Poetry

Musical Selections

Depression [”Separate Way No. 8”] (2:07) -- Kaddish [”Separate Way No. 13”] (2:09) -- Boris Pasternak (2:14) / Anna Andreevna Akhmatova [trans. by Stanley Kunitz] -- “My hair was caught in the wheels of a clock” [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 63”] (0:08) -- “Amelia was just fourteen and out of the orphan asylum; at her first job” [”Testimony II,” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (1:11) -- “The highway I was walking on” [“The Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 7”] (3:45) -- “I was walking along Forty-Second Street as night was falling” [”The Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 25”] (0:57) -- [excerpt of a letter to Harvey Shapiro from Marie Syrkin (wife of Charles Reznikoff)] (0:56) -- “Whenever my sister used to practice” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 3”] (0:29) -- “The windows opened on blank walls” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 4”] (0:38) -- Death of an Insect [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 13”] (0:17) -- “To early in the morning” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 17”] (0:52) -- Heat Wave: Third Day [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 25”] (0:21) -- “The princess” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 32”] (0:07) -- “The petty officer of a ship, ruddy cheeks and casklike chest and belly” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 19”, from original 1969 edition and later omitted] (0:24) -- Lesson in Homer [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 39”] (0:20) -- “You must not suppose” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 11”] (0:11) -- “The prodding of ‘get me’ and ‘give me’” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 28” from original 1969 edition and later omitted] (0:06) -- “You would crack my bones” [”The Well of Living and Seeing I, No. 48”] (0:15) -- “Head sunken, eyes closed” [”Kaddish VI,” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:42) -- “Her heavy braids, the long hair of which she had been proud” [”Kaddish VII,” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:17) -- “My mother leaned above me” [”Kaddish VIII,” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:19) -- Stele [”Kaddish IX,” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:30) -- “We looked at the light burning slowly before the picture” [”Kaddish X,” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:18) -- “I know you do not mind” [”Kaddish XI,” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:18) -- Elegy for the Old Language (3:02) / Walter Lowenfels -- “The shopgirls leave their work” [”Rhythms No. 9”, also found in the 1927 edition of “A Fifth Group of Verse”] (0:13) -- “My work done, I lean on the window-sill” [”Rhythms No. 19”] (0:14) -- “The winter afternoon darkens” [”Rhythms II No. 5”] (0:14) -- Scrubwoman [”Rhythms II, No. 7”] (0:20) -- “The peddler who goes from shop to shop” [”Poems, No. 4”] (0:13) -- Ghetto Funeral [”Poems, No. 8”] (0:27) -- “Showing a torn sleeve, with stiff and shaking fingers the old man” [”Poems, No. 9”] (0:14) -- She sat by the window opening into the airshaft” [”Poems, No. 11”] (0:45) -- “He showed me the album...” [”A Fourth Group of Verse, No. 19”] (0:41) -- “The shoemaker sat in the cellar’s dusk...” [”A Fourth Group of Verse, No. 48”] (1:10) -- “How miserly this bush is” [”A Fifth Group of Verse, No. 7”] (0:09) -- A Citizen [”A Fifth Group of Verse, No. 10”] (0:17) -- A Sunny Day [”A Fifth Group of Verse, No. 12”] (0:38) -- Building Boom [”A Fifth Group of Verse, No. 13”] (0:29) -- Holocaust [excerpt, from the book length poem] (2:00) -- “Now it is cold: where the snow was melting” [”Autobiography: New York, VI” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (1:05) -- “On a seat in the subway, staring out of the window at” [”A Short History of Israel; Notes and Glosses, VII” from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:34) -- “I was wearing a belt buckle” [”The Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 20”] (0:18) -- Te Deum [”Inscriptions No. 22”] (0:21) -- “I will be down in a few days” [”Social Life, No. 1” from “Testimony: The United States 1885-1915”] (0:11) -- “For thirty-five years they had lived together” [from “Testimony: The United States 1885-1915”] (0:59) -- “He was a married man in the forties” [from “Testimony: The United States 1885-1915”] (0:31) -- “When they told her husband” [from “Testimony: The United States 1885-1915”] (0:08) -- For Charles Reznikoff 1894-1976 (0:15) / Joel Oppenheimer -- Psalm (0:41) / George Oppen -- “During the Second World War, I was going home one night” [”By the Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 28”] (1:45) -- Would I write a letter for him?” [”By the Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 3”] (2:16) -- “I was sick” (0:31) / Martha Appenzeller (sp?) [7th grade student] -- “I remember my little friend Dede” (0:36) / Alexander Misuris (sp?) [7th grade student] -- “Down on Broadway” (0:38) / [anonymous]

Performers

David Ignatow, reader
Stanley Kunitz , reader
Ron Padgett, reader
Harvey Shapiro, reader
Walter Lowenfels, reader
Allen Ginsberg, reader
Peter Orlovsky, reader
Susan Howe, reader
Joel Oppenheimer, reader
Alice Notley, reader
Bill Zavatsky, reader

Subjects

Poetry