John Ashbery Poetry Reading (from The Key West Literary Seminar, 2003)

John Ashbery reads from Chinese Whispers (2002), his twenty-fourth book of poems. Along the way, he discusses the poems’ references to Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, Arthur Rimbaud, and other titans of French music, art, and literature.
00:00 Introduction
1:02 Nice Presentation
3:20 Disagreeable Glimpses
9:10 Theme Park Days
11:05 Why Not Sneeze?
12:10 View of Delft
13:24 The Lightning Conductor
15:50 I Asked Mr. Dithers Whether It Was Time Yet He Said No to Wait
17:05 Local Legend
19:50 Runway
21:30 The Business of Falling Asleep (2)
From KWLS 2003: The Beautiful Changes
This recording is available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the author. © 2003 John Ashbery.

[@connorveach5986]

Thank you so much for this. I’ve listened to Self Portrait… about a thousand times but this is such a welcome, beautiful, lushly weird barrage of new poems to listen to for the first time. Incredible. I’m getting swirled and sloshed around over here

[@dion1949]

It's hard to find this collection in print. The Library of America edition ends with "Your Name Here."

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