Over the past five years PennSound Contributing Editor Chris Funkhouser has been engaged in an extensive project to document the poetry of George Quasha. Sometimes that means we get lengthy sessions of dozens of poems and sometimes we get more modest ones. Chris recently sent along one of the latter, a twenty-six minute recording of Quasha reading at Rhinebeck, New York's 'T' Space on September 8th of this year. Quasha was there to receive the tenth annual 'T' Space Poetry Award, joining the likes of Cathy Park Hong, Ann Lauterbach, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Arthur Sze. While the recording took place in a bucolic outdoor setting, complete with the persistent thrum of crickets, our Managing Editor Zach Carduner has also taken the liberty of creating a cricket-free mix for our listeners.
You'll find that recording on PennSound's George Quasha author page, along with lengthy selections from many of his books including Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Dowsing Axis, Hearing Other, The Ghost In Between, Verbal Paradise, Glossodelia Attract: Preverbs, The Daimon of Moment: Preverbs, Scorned Beauty Comes Up Behind: Preverbs, Things Done for Themselves: Preverbs, and Polypoikilos: Matrix in Variance: Preverbs, among others. Click here to start listening.
