Monday, April 30, 2007

The audio recording of the 4/26/07 reading at Prairie Lights Books, featuring Ben Lerner and Geoffrey O'Brien, is now available. Ben Lerner read a selection of prose poems from Angle of Yaw, and Geoffrey O'Brien read from Green and Gray.

Listen: Ben Lerner and Geoffrey O'Brien at Prairie Lights, 4/26/07 Ben Lerner read the following untitled prose poems from Angle of Yaw; the first lines of these poems are listed below, in order.

"When night falls in the middle west"
"Reading is important"
"He had enough respect for painting"
"The artist proposes a series of"
"Dear Cyrus, he puts down, dear Cyrus"
"We are pleased to offer a lamp"
"The dog in the cartoon"
"The soldier in the film"
"Child actors"
"Dear Cyrus, he puts down"
"The aircraft rotates"
"When we saw the pattern"

Geoffrey O’Brien read the following poems from Green and Gray:

"The Nature of Encounters"
"The New"
"Some Versions of "
"To be out of Sweden and"
"On the Phantom Estate"
"Realia"
"To Classes"
"Paraphrase of Aragon"
"Hysteron Proteron"

Listen: Ben Lerner and Geoffrey O'Brien at Prairie Lights, 4/26/07