Bill Ransom: The Lost Tapes

Bill Ransom: The Lost Tapes Part I, 2008-2018, The Woman and the War Baby.

Filmed reading never seen by anyone. Technological problems combined with computer limitations and daily life, until January, 2018. Bill Ransom's final pre-publication reading and conversation with Jim Bodeen at Blue Begonia Press, in Yakima, Washington.

Bill Ransom The Lost Tapes 2008-2018 Part II My Particular Scenery

Never before seen video of Bill Ransom's reading of The Woman and the War Baby, with Jim Bodeen at Ble Begonia Press, in Yakima, WA during summer, 2008. Surfaced recording restored in January 2018. Ransom, poet and novelist in his visceral prime. This video includes a partial reading of Trillium

Bill Ransom Trillium: The Lost Tapes 2008-2018, Visceral conversation and Reading, Part III

Trillium is a critical piece in understanding the work of Bill Ransom. Conversation with Jim Bodeen on the front porch in the Bodeen home during 2008. This video has been lost from the date of the recording until its first-birth in 2018. Trillium is included in Ransom's The Woman and the War Baby from Blue Begonia Press. Part III of four parts.

Bill Ransom Walking the Same Beach The Lost Tapes 2008-2018 Part IV

Bill Ransom concludes his final pre-publication reading of The Woman and the War Baby, from 2008. This reading disappeared the day it was made, and has been restored and recreated in 2018. Walking the same beach is the one that travels up the Americas from the late 1980s until today and beyond. Bill Ransom is a poet of witness and remembering.