KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: A Poetry Reading by Charles Reznikoff, March 21, 1974, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

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Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1974.03.21.A

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

55 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1974-05-15 | broadcast
| 1974-03-21 | created

Genres

Poetry

Musical Selections

“Salmon and red wine” [”Inscriptions No. 23”] (0:40) -- “I have neither the time nor the weaving skill, perhaps” [”Inscriptions No. 21”] (0:24) -- "When the sky is blue, the water over the sandy bottom is green" [”Jerusalem is Golden No. 71”] (0:20) -- Building Boom [”A Fifth Group of Verse No. 13”] (0:30) -- "The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase" [”Poems No. 7”] (0:08) -- "Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies" [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 69”] (0:09) -- "These days the papers in the street" [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 10”] (0:18) -- "Scrap of paper" [”Inscriptions No. 24”] (0:08) -- "Of course, we must die." [”Inscriptions No. 41”] (0:12) -- "Rails in the subway," [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 17”] (0:09) -- "This subway station" [”Autobiography: New York XVIII”, from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:15) -- "What are you doing in our street among the automobiles" [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 39”] (0:09) -- "Permit me to warn you" [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 42”] (0:06) -- "As I was wandering with my unhappy thoughts" [”Inscriptions No. 20”] (0:28) -- "On a Sunday, when the place was closed," [”Autobiography: New York XXVII”, from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:15) -- "Fraser, I think, tells of a Roman," [“Inscriptions No. 45”] (0:15) -- "The hillside facing the river was much used by the citizens last night" [”By the Well of Living and Seeing II No. 32”] (0:33) -- Rainy Season [”Autobiography: Hollywood XII”, from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:13) -- Scrubwoman [”Rhythms II No. 7”] (0:15) -- "The peddler who goes from shop to shop," [”Poems No. 4”] (0:11) -- "The winter afternoon darkens." [”Rhythms II No. 5”] (0:10) -- "The elevator man, working long hours" [”Autobiography: New York XVII”, from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:13) -- "The young fellow walks about" [”Autobiography: New York XXV”, from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:29) -- "Showing a torn sleeve, with stiff and shaking fingers the old man" [”Poems No. 9”] (0:14) -- "Two girls of twelve or so at a table" [”Inscriptions No. 7”] (0:37) -- "Simple soul, who so early in the morning" [excerpt, from “Depression” from “Separate Way No. 8”] (0:31) -- "In the drizzle" [excerpt, from “Depression” from “Separate Way No. 8”] (0:32) -- "The shopgirls leave their work" [”Rhythms No. 9”] (0:12) -- Millinery District [”Separate Way No. 6”] (0:10) -- Cooper Union Library [”Autobiography: New York XXIII”, from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:18) -- "You must not suppose" [”By the Well of Living and Seeing I No. 11”] (0:09) -- “I am always surprised to meet, after ten or twenty years” [”Autobiography: New York XXVI”, from “Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down”] (0:22) -- "The new janitor is a Puerto Rican;" [”By the Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 10”] (1:15) -- "Most of the stock in the hardware store" [”By the Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 13”] (1:43) -- "The Chinese girl in the waiting-room" [”By the Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 11”] (0:21) -- “During the Second World War, I was going home one night” [”By the Well of Living and Seeing II, No. 28”] (1:31) -- Fable [”Inscriptions No. 50”] (0:24) -- "One of my sentinels, a tree," [”Inscriptions No. 3”] (0:10) -- "I have not even been in the fields," [”Rhythms II No. 1”] (0:08) -- "Blurred sight and trembling fingers-" [”Inscriptions No. 48”] (0:15) -- Heart and Clock [excerpt, ”Separate Way No. 1”] (0:34) -- "If my days were like the ants," [excerpt, ”Separate Way No. 1”] (0:13) -- "The clock" [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 62”] (0:09) -- "My hair was caught in the wheels of a clock" [”Jerusalem the Golden No. 63”] (0:33) -- "Hardly a breath of wind," [”Inscriptions No. 12”] (0:14) -- “After I had worked all day at what I earn my living” [”A Fifth Group of Verse No. 19”] (0:09) -- Te Deum [”Inscriptions No. 22”] (0:07) -- “Amelia was just fourteen and out of the orphan asylum; at her first job” [”Testimony II”] (01:10)

Subjects

Poetry

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.