Joan Retallack. Photo courtesy of Arizona State University,
Joan Retallack. Photo courtesy of Arizona State University,
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Joan Retallack Reading
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired 4/11/11

Joan Retallack reads her poems: from "The Woman in the Chinese Room" (from How To Do Things With Words, Sun & Moon Classics, 1998), from The Bosch Bookshelf, 1-6, (published in Qui Parle [At the Intersections of Ecocriticism], Vol.19, No.2, Spring 2011), and from "Coimbra Poem of Poetry & Violence: Grief's Rubies," from Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont'd / (Roof Books, 2010).

Joan Retallack’s most recent book is PROCEDURAL ELEGIES/WESTERN CIV CONT'D from Roof. She is the author of The Poethical Wager (University of California Press) M U S I C A G E / CAGE MUSES on Words. Art. Music: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

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