Tomas Venclova poetry reading

Contents (with permission to put on the web):

0. TV, Introduction (19:30)

1. "Desist, desist" (1999a, 28, 1:02)

2. "Thanksgiving Day" (1999a, 58-59), read by Anna Maria Koch (6:51)

3. "Sheremetyevo, 1977" (1999a, 64-65), read by Camilla Mamedova (6:05)

4. "In the fire" (1999a, 84), read by Lauren Dantche (2:49)

5. "A projector flickers" (1999a, 94), read by Brolen Freimanis (7:39)

6. "The Member of the Landing Crew" (1999b, 92-94), read by Kelsey Bergman (7:44)

7. "Commentary" (1999b, 95-96), read by Jennifer Martin (3:11)

8. "Henkus Hapenckus, In memoriam" (1999c, 76-79), read by Lori Cole (6:02)

9. "Two Apocrypha" (2004, 27-29), read by Jason Harrington (6:42)

10. "The Junction" (2004, 24-25), read by Irena Blekys (6:44)


Published Sources:

1999a. Winter Dialogue. Translated by Diana Senechal. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

1999b. Translated by Diana Senechal. In Baltic poets, ed. by Juris Kronbergs. Stockholm: Swedish Institute.

1999c. Translated by Diana Senechal. In Metamorphoses 7,2 (Summer 1999). Amherst/Northampton, Massachusets.

2004. Translated by Constantine Rusanov. In Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation & Art. Intersecting Senses, ed. by Alexander Deriev. Stockholm-Moscow-New York.


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