Daryl Hine at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 1 December 1967

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Daryl Hine at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 1 December 1967

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1936-2012

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Canadian-American poet, translator and editor Daryl Hine was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1936. His first poems were published when he was fifteen in Contemporary Verse. In 1954 he traveled to Montreal to study classics and philosophy at McGill University, and completed his B.A. by 1958. His first books of poetry published was Five Poems (Emblem Books, 1955), followed by The carnal and the crane (McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1957). In 1968 Hine received a Canada Foundation-Rockefeller fellowship which he used to travel Europe and live in France. In 1962 he returned, and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago in comparative literature by 1967. Hine then took on a position teaching English at the University of Chicago, and the next year edited the distinguished Poetry magazine until 1978. By this time Hine had already published The Devil’s Picture Book (Abelard, 1960), Heroics: Five Poems (Grosswiller, 1961), The Wooden Horse (Atheneum, 1965), Minutes (Atheneum, 1969), Resident Alien (Atheneum, 1975), privately printed In and Out in 1975 (reprinted in 1989 by Knopf) and Daylight Saving (Atheneum, 1978). Hine has also translated The Homeric Hymns and the Battle of the Frogs and Mice (Atheneum, 1972), Ovid’s Heroines: A Verse Translations of the Hero Heroides (Yale University Press, 1991) and Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology (Princeton University Press, 2001), several radio and stage plays A Mutual Flame (BBC Radio, 1961), The Death of Seneca (Chicago, 1968) and Alecstis (BBC Radio, 1972). Hine has won several prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980, an American Academy Award in 1982 and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1986. He has since published a novel, The Prince of Darkness & Co (Abelard-Schuman, 1961), and poetry collections, including Selected Poems (Oxford University Press, 1980), Academic Festival Overtures (Atheneum, 1985), Postscripts (Random House, 1990), Recollected poems: 1951-2004 (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2007) along with dozens of articles and poems in magazines and anthologies. Hine died in 2012.

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1939-

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Unknown 00:00:00 Ambient Sound [voices]. Margaret Atwood 00:00:12 I first met Daryl Hine about six years ago in New York , where he was living in the midst of a colony of cockroaches, and on that occasion, he drank me under the table with more ease and urbanity than anybody that's been able to manage since, which is actually a literary comment on the way he writes poetry. It's a pleasure to welcome him back to Montreal , while attending the 'other' university here; before that he lived in Vancouver , where he was born in 1936, and where he began writing poetry at the age of twelve, and publishing it in such magazines as Northern Review and Contemporary Verse at the age of fifteen. His first book, Five Poems, was published when he was eighteen, and his next, The Carnal and the Crane, established him as an important poet at age 21, when most poets are still cutting their poetic teeth. Since then, his career, like his poetry, has been international, rather than national. After becoming a college dropout, he traveled widely in Europe and then in the United States , producing, en route, four other books, The Devil's Picture Book and The Wooden Horse, both of which are poetry, The Prince of Darkness, a novel, and a travel book called Polish Subtitles. He is currently awaiting the publication of his next book of poetry, to be called Minutes, while teaching in the English department at the University of Chicago . He says that his plans for the future are vague, but he assures me that they include the evasion of Toronto . Ladies and gentlemen, Daryl Hine. Audience 00:02:03 Applause. Daryl Hine 00:02:11 I thought I'd begin by reading some poems that I wrote when I lived in Montreal...if I can find some fuel. Poems that are in my second book, which I tend to think of as my first book, The Carnal and the Crane. I'll read the third and fourth of four fabulary satires. Daryl Hine 00:02:48 Reads “Four Fabulary Satires” part III from The Carnal and the Crane. Daryl Hine 00:04:51 And the fourth satire. Daryl Hine 00:04:53 Reads “Four Fabulary Satires” part IV from The Carnal and the Crane. Daryl Hine 00:06:56 The other poem that I'll read from The Carnal and the Crane is a one-sided dialogue called "A Bewilderment at the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden". It's in four fairly distinct parts. They're more distinct than the ordinary stanzas in a poem. Daryl Hine 00:07:35 Reads "A Bewilderment at the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden" from The Carnal and the Crane. Daryl Hine 00:10:52 A number of the poems in my next book, The Devil's Picture Book, were also written in Montreal, although the book was published about two years after I left Montreal and went to Europe. I'm going to read one of the longest poems in this book, which is called "The Double-Goer". Daryl Hine 00:11:41 Reads "The Double-Goer" from The Devil’s Picture Book. Daryl Hine 00:16:31 Immediately following that poem in The Devil's Picture Book, which I feel is very accurately titled, immediately after that poem is another much shorter, and...perhaps not really simpler poem on the same subject, the subject which seemed to preoccupy me a great deal at the time and I'm glad to say no longer does. This poem is a villanelle, and it's called "The Black Swan". Daryl Hine 00:17:12 Reads "The Black Swan" from The Devil’s Picture Book. Daryl Hine 00:18:38 There's a...poem in The Wooden Horse that deals also, perhaps, I think, with the same subject, but in a different way, and at a different stage. It's called "The Ouija Board". It may be that some of you don't know what an ouija board is, in any case, this one wasn't a real ouija board. We made it up using a teacup, an inverted, as I remember, cracked, willow-patterned teacup, on a round circular table top. Four of us operated this by placing a single finger each on the teacup, and we cut out letters of the alphabet and placed them around the table. I did this in company with a friend of mine who's done it for many years, and has developed such perfect communication with the other side that instead of getting the usual scrambled answers that people get in these attempted communications, he gets extremely long, involved, and very literate answers, rather in the style of his own prose writing....[audience laughter] which all purport, or most of them purport to come from a Greek or Roman character called, in this poem Io, he's actually called Ephraim, although perhaps I shouldn't mention it. Anyway, this is about a session with the teacup. Daryl Hine 00:20:15 Reads “The Ouija Board” from The Wooden Horse. Daryl Hine 00:21:54 Perhaps as an alternative to all of this tinkering with the other side, I'll read a poem that is, most of it, very much about this side, called "Bluebeard's Wife". Daryl Hine 00:22:21 Reads "Bluebeard's Wife" from The Wooden Horse. Daryl Hine 00:25:46 The last poem I'll read from The Wooden Horse is the last poem in The Wooden Horse, and I beg your indulgence, as it's a trifle long. It's called "The Wave". Daryl Hine 00:26:17 Reads "The Wave” from The Wooden Horse. Daryl Hine 00:31:01 Four years ago I came back to Montreal on my first visit since I left rather quietly in 1958, and spent the next year after this return visit, which was very pleasant, although very brief, struggling with a poem which I think perhaps is still not quite finished, but I think will go either in this form or some other form into the next book. It's a poem, of course, about the impossibility of writing an autobiographical poem. And it's called "The Apology". Daryl Hine 00:31:56 Reads "The Apology" [published later in Minutes]. Daryl Hine 00:35:53 Well, I've returned to other places than Montreal [audience laughter], and two summers ago I went back just for the summer to Paris , where I lived for something more than, between three and four years, and I didn't like it very much. And these are two poems from a series that I wrote about not liking it. This one is called "The Marché aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes"- the Marché aux Puces is of course the flea market, and the Jardin des Plantes is the botanical and zoological gardens, where I spent, in one place or other I spent most of my afternoons, that rather boring summer in Paris. Having the habit of working in the morning. Daryl Hine 00:36:53 Reads "The Marché aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes" [published later in Minutes; audience laughter throughout]. Daryl Hine 00:38:17 Well, I think perhaps I'll read three of these [inaudible]. The next one will seem familiar to, I'm sure, many of you. I haven't quite decided on a title, it might be called "Jardin des Gourmets", or it might be called "Rendez-vous des routiers" or something like that, it's about a certain sort of French restaurant. Daryl Hine 00:38:42 Reads "Le Rendezvous des Gourmets" [published later in Minutes; audience laughter throughout]. Daryl Hine 00:40:18 And this poem isn't quite as funny [audience laughter], not that I really thought the last one was, but this one is really about Henry James' novel, The Ambassadors . It's also, of course, about being in any town in the off season, in this case, Paris, and of course, Paris in August is emptier than anywhere I've ever been. But, I imagine that other places in their off seasons are the same. It's called "Clôture annuelle". Daryl Hine 00:40:57 Reads "Clôture annuelle" [published later in Minutes]. Daryl Hine 00:42:19 I also, this year, or was it last, returned to my place of origin, British Columbia . A [inaudible] which will be familiar to some of you as the site of the University of British Columbia , I don't mean the University by any of the architectural things I mention in this poem, but I'm talking about the beach, a very beautiful, barren Pacific beach that lies below Point Grey . Daryl Hine 00:43:05 Begins to read unnamed poem. Daryl Hine 00:43:10 Well...[shuffles paper] I'll read another version, I think. Excuse me. Daryl Hine 00:43:18 Reads [“Point Grey”; published later in Minutes]. Daryl Hine 00:45:03 Reads unnamed poem. Daryl Hine 00:46:12 The last poem I'll read, if I can find it...it is called..."The Trout". Daryl Hine 00:46:50 Reads "The Trout" [published later in Minutes]. Audience 00:48:41 Applause. Announcer 00:48:59 I want to thank Mr. Hine and also announce that the next reading is on January 26th, by the American poet John Logan . END 00:49:12

Notes:

Daryl Hine reads from The Carnal and the Crane (McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1957), The Devil’s Picture Book (Abelard, 1960), and The Wooden Horse (Atheneum, 1965), as well as poems published later in Minutes (Atheneum, 1968). 00:12- Unknown (female- perhaps Wynne Francis?) introduces Daryl Hine [INDEX: met in New York, McGill University, Vancouver (b. 1936), Northern Review, Contemporary Verse, books Five Poems (Emblem Books, 1955), The carnal and the crane (McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1957), international career, traveling in Europe and the U.S., books The Devil’s Picture Book (Abelard, 1960), The Wooden Horse (Atheneum, 1965), The Prince of Darkness (Abelard-Schuman, 1961), Polish Subtitles (Abelard-Schuman,1962), next publication: Minutes (Atheneum, 1975), teaching at the University of Chicago, Toronto.] 02:11- Daryl Hine introduces “Four Fabulary Satires” part III. [INDEX: first line “Bee, at the end of your famous garden, admonished...”; poems written in Montreal, poems in “second” book (actually first); from The Carnal and the Crane (McGill Poetry Series, 1957).] 02:48- Reads “Four Fabulary Satires” part III. [INDEX: garden, nature, bee, poppy, hollyhock, time, rhetoric, language, orator, grasshopper, ant, grammar; Duration: 02:03.] 04:51- Introduces “Four Fabulary Satires” Part IV. [INDEX: fourth satire; from The Carnal and the Crane (McGill Poetry Series, 1957)] 04:53- Reads “Four Fabulary Satires” Part IV. 06:56- Introduces “A Bewilderment at the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden”. [INDEX: one-sided dialogue, four parts, rather than stanzas; from The Carnal and the Crane (McGill Poetry Series, 1957).] 07:35- Reads “A Bewilderment at the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden”. [INDEX: boy, demons, paradise, money, angel, sleep, art, Hamlet, duality; duration: 03:17.] 10:52- Introduces “The Double-Goer”. [INDEX: number of poems in The Devil’s Picture Book (Abelard, 1960) written in Montreal, left Montreal for Europe, longest poem in the book.] 11:41- Reads “The Double-Goer”. [INDEX: lyric, error, crime, art, heart, half, double, heaven, earth, duality, day, single, sleeper, dream, sublime, careless; from The Devil’s Picture Book (Abelard, 1960), duration 04:50; Howard Fink list “The Double Door”.] 16:31- Introduces “The Black Swan”. [INDEX: title of The Devil’s Picture Book, poem following “The Double-goer” is shorter, subject matter, villanelle; from The Devil’s Picture Book (Abelard, 1960).] 17:12- Reads “The Black Swan”. [INDEX: nature, air, water, swan, villanelle, guilt, lover, fair, duality; from The Devil’s Picture Book (Abelard, 1960), duration 01:26.] 18:38- Introduces “The Ouija Board”. [INDEX: from The Wooden Horse (Atheneum, 1965), deals with similar subject to “The Black Swan” but at different stage, ouija board, self-made ouija board out of willow-patterned teacup, on table, four people operating it, literate answers, prose writing, Greek or Roman character called Io or Ephraim.] 20:15- Reads “The Ouija Board”. [INDEX: ouija board, voices, spirit, questions, answers, dialogue, glass, grave, death, other side, other world, love; duration 01:38.] 21:54- Introduces “Bluebeard’s Wife”. [INDEX: about the other side; from The Wooden Horse (Atheneum, 1965)] 25:46- Reads “Bluebeard's Wife”. [INDEX: Bluebeard, myth, fairy tale, wife, objects, summer, nature, air, alone, artifice, rooms; from The Wooden Horse (Atheneum, 1965); duration 02:24.] 26:17- Reads “The Wave”. [INDEX: day, Sunday, sea, tide, beach, write, event, documentation, earthquake, death, flood, God; from unknown source; duration 03:45.] 31:01- Introduces “The Apology”. [INDEX: first trip to Montreal since 1958, came back with idea for this poem, not in finished form, about the impossibility of writing an autobiographical poem, published in next book of poetry; first published in Minutes (Atheneum, 1968). Note: possible differences in published version?] 31:56- Reads “The Apology”. [INDEX: apology, time machine, woman, school, poem, machine, mechanical, reader, verse, silence, experience, meaning, poet; duration 03:57.] 35:53- Introduces “The Marche aux puces and the Jardin des Plantes”. [INDEX: return to Paris, lived there for 3-4 years, poem about not liking Paris, Marche aux puces is a flea market, Jardin des Plantes is the botanical and zoological gardens, summer in Paris, working in the morning; from Minutes (Atheneum, 1968).] 36:53- Reads “The Marche aux Puces and the Jardins des Plantes”. [INDEX: art, beauty, zoo, flea market, metro, cities, Paris; duration 01:22.] 38:17- Introduces unknown poem, first line “The price is fixed...”. [INDEX: possible titles “Jardin des Gourmets” or “Rendez-vous des routiers”, about French Restaurant; published as “Le Rendezvous des Gourmets” in Minutes (Atheneum, 1968).] 38:42- Reads unknown poem, first line “The price is fixed...”. [INDEX: restaurant, food, soup, menu, bread, sacrament, Last Supper, remembrance; duration 01:34.] 40:18- Introduces “Clôture annuelle”. [INDEX: Henry James’ novel, The Ambassadors, being in a town in the off-season, Paris in August; from Minutes (Atheneum, 1968).] 40:57- Reads “Clôture annuelle”. [INDEX: cities, Paris, August, emptiness, solitude, weather, summer, winter, stranger, life; duration 01:22.] 42:19- Introduces unknown poem, first line “Brought up as I was to judge the weather...”. [INDEX: returning to B.C., University of British Columbia, barren beach below Point Grey; published as “Point Grey” in Minutes (Atheneum, 1968).] 43:05- Begins to read “Brought up as I was to judge the weather...”. 43:10- Interrupts reading to read a different version. 43:18- Reads “Brought up as I was to ask of the weather...”. [INDEX: cities, Vancouver, beach, water, mountains, rain, weather, concrete, guilt, waves, beauty.] 45:03- Reads “Antaeus, when once separated from the ground...”. [INDEX: myth, Antaeus, Hercules, gravity, love, suffering; from unknown source.] 46:12- Introduces “The Trout”. [INDEX: from Minutes (Atheneum, 1968).] 46:50- Reads “The Trout”. [INDEX: water, fish, prison, reality, music, cycles, death, pattern, paradise; duration 01:48.] 48:59- Unknown male announcer makes announcement of next reading [INDEX: January 26, American poet John Logan.] Howard Fink List: Print catalogue page from archives contains the following information: Title: Daryl Hine reading his own poetry Date: December 1, 1969 Source: one, two-track, 7” tape, 3 ¾, lasting 55 mins. 1. Title: First line: “Be, at the end of your famous garden…” 2. Title: First line: “The fox and the crow…” 3. Title: A Bewilderment of the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden First line: “Not knowing…” 4. Title: The Double Door First line: “All that I do is…” 5. Title: The Black Swan First line: “Confused between the water and the air…” 6. Title: Ouija Board First line: “The wood that they prefer to walk…” 7. Title: Bluebeard’s Wife First line: “Impatiently she tampered with” **Note inserted in archived print catalogue: -between poems #7 and #8; The Wave First line: “Suddenly it was quiet as a Sunday” 8. Title: The Apology First line:“The time machine” 9. Title: First line:“There are too many hours in a day” 10. Title: First line: “The price is fixed…” 11. Title: First line: “X, in August…” 12. Title: First line: “Brought up as I was…” 13. Title: The Trout First line: “The water…”

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daryl_hine_i006-11-158.mp3 Unknown 00:00:00 Ambient Sound [voices]. Margaret Atwood 00:00:12 I first met Daryl Hine about six years ago in New York , where he was living in the midst of a colony of cockroaches, and on that occasion, he drank me under the table with more ease and urbanity than anybody that's been able to manage since, which is actually a literary comment on the way he writes poetry. It's a pleasure to welcome him back to Montreal , while attending the 'other' university here; before that he lived in Vancouver , where he was born in 1936, and where he began writing poetry at the age of twelve, and publishing it in such magazines as Northern Review and Contemporary Verse at the age of fifteen. His first book, Five Poems, was published when he was eighteen, and his next, The Carnal and the Crane, established him as an important poet at age 21, when most poets are still cutting their poetic teeth. Since then, his career, like his poetry, has been international, rather than national. After becoming a college dropout, he traveled widely in Europe and then in the United States , producing, en route, four other books, The Devil's Picture Book and The Wooden Horse, both of which are poetry, The Prince of Darkness, a novel, and a travel book called Polish Subtitles. He is currently awaiting the publication of his next book of poetry, to be called Minutes, while teaching in the English department at the University of Chicago . He says that his plans for the future are vague, but he assures me that they include the evasion of Toronto . Ladies and gentlemen, Daryl Hine. Audience 00:02:03 Applause. Daryl Hine 00:02:11 I thought I'd begin by reading some poems that I wrote when I lived in Montreal...if I can find some fuel. Poems that are in my second book, which I tend to think of as my first book, The Carnal and the Crane. I'll read the third and fourth of four fabulary satires. Daryl Hine 00:02:48 Reads “Four Fabulary Satires” part III from The Carnal and the Crane. Daryl Hine 00:04:51 And the fourth satire. Daryl Hine 00:04:53 Reads “Four Fabulary Satires” part IV from The Carnal and the Crane. Daryl Hine 00:06:56 The other poem that I'll read from The Carnal and the Crane is a one-sided dialogue called "A Bewilderment at the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden". It's in four fairly distinct parts. They're more distinct than the ordinary stanzas in a poem. Daryl Hine 00:07:35 Reads "A Bewilderment at the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden" from The Carnal and the Crane. Daryl Hine 00:10:52 A number of the poems in my next book, The Devil's Picture Book, were also written in Montreal, although the book was published about two years after I left Montreal and went to Europe. I'm going to read one of the longest poems in this book, which is called "The Double-Goer". Daryl Hine 00:11:41 Reads "The Double-Goer" from The Devil’s Picture Book. Daryl Hine 00:16:31 Immediately following that poem in The Devil's Picture Book, which I feel is very accurately titled, immediately after that poem is another much shorter, and...perhaps not really simpler poem on the same subject, the subject which seemed to preoccupy me a great deal at the time and I'm glad to say no longer does. This poem is a villanelle, and it's called "The Black Swan". Daryl Hine 00:17:12 Reads "The Black Swan" from The Devil’s Picture Book. Daryl Hine 00:18:38 There's a...poem in The Wooden Horse that deals also, perhaps, I think, with the same subject, but in a different way, and at a different stage. It's called "The Ouija Board". It may be that some of you don't know what an ouija board is, in any case, this one wasn't a real ouija board. We made it up using a teacup, an inverted, as I remember, cracked, willow-patterned teacup, on a round circular table top. Four of us operated this by placing a single finger each on the teacup, and we cut out letters of the alphabet and placed them around the table. I did this in company with a friend of mine who's done it for many years, and has developed such perfect communication with the other side that instead of getting the usual scrambled answers that people get in these attempted communications, he gets extremely long, involved, and very literate answers, rather in the style of his own prose writing....[audience laughter] which all purport, or most of them purport to come from a Greek or Roman character called, in this poem Io, he's actually called Ephraim, although perhaps I shouldn't mention it. Anyway, this is about a session with the teacup. Daryl Hine 00:20:15 Reads “The Ouija Board” from The Wooden Horse. Daryl Hine 00:21:54 Perhaps as an alternative to all of this tinkering with the other side, I'll read a poem that is, most of it, very much about this side, called "Bluebeard's Wife". Daryl Hine 00:22:21 Reads "Bluebeard's Wife" from The Wooden Horse. Daryl Hine 00:25:46 The last poem I'll read from The Wooden Horse is the last poem in The Wooden Horse, and I beg your indulgence, as it's a trifle long. It's called "The Wave". Daryl Hine 00:26:17 Reads "The Wave” from The Wooden Horse. Daryl Hine 00:31:01 Four years ago I came back to Montreal on my first visit since I left rather quietly in 1958, and spent the next year after this return visit, which was very pleasant, although very brief, struggling with a poem which I think perhaps is still not quite finished, but I think will go either in this form or some other form into the next book. It's a poem, of course, about the impossibility of writing an autobiographical poem. And it's called "The Apology". Daryl Hine 00:31:56 Reads "The Apology" [published later in Minutes]. Daryl Hine 00:35:53 Well, I've returned to other places than Montreal [audience laughter], and two summers ago I went back just for the summer to Paris , where I lived for something more than, between three and four years, and I didn't like it very much. And these are two poems from a series that I wrote about not liking it. This one is called "The Marché aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes"- the Marché aux Puces is of course the flea market, and the Jardin des Plantes is the botanical and zoological gardens, where I spent, in one place or other I spent most of my afternoons, that rather boring summer in Paris. Having the habit of working in the morning. Daryl Hine 00:36:53 Reads "The Marché aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes" [published later in Minutes; audience laughter throughout]. Daryl Hine 00:38:17 Well, I think perhaps I'll read three of these [inaudible]. The next one will seem familiar to, I'm sure, many of you. I haven't quite decided on a title, it might be called "Jardin des Gourmets", or it might be called "Rendez-vous des routiers" or something like that, it's about a certain sort of French restaurant. Daryl Hine 00:38:42 Reads "Le Rendezvous des Gourmets" [published later in Minutes; audience laughter throughout]. Daryl Hine 00:40:18 And this poem isn't quite as funny [audience laughter], not that I really thought the last one was, but this one is really about Henry James' novel, The Ambassadors . It's also, of course, about being in any town in the off season, in this case, Paris, and of course, Paris in August is emptier than anywhere I've ever been. But, I imagine that other places in their off seasons are the same. It's called "Clôture annuelle". Daryl Hine 00:40:57 Reads "Clôture annuelle" [published later in Minutes]. Daryl Hine 00:42:19 I also, this year, or was it last, returned to my place of origin, British Columbia . A [inaudible] which will be familiar to some of you as the site of the University of British Columbia , I don't mean the University by any of the architectural things I mention in this poem, but I'm talking about the beach, a very beautiful, barren Pacific beach that lies below Point Grey . Daryl Hine 00:43:05 Begins to read unnamed poem. Daryl Hine 00:43:10 Well...[shuffles paper] I'll read another version, I think. Excuse me. Daryl Hine 00:43:18 Reads [“Point Grey”; published later in Minutes]. Daryl Hine 00:45:03 Reads unnamed poem. Daryl Hine 00:46:12 The last poem I'll read, if I can find it...it is called..."The Trout". Daryl Hine 00:46:50 Reads "The Trout" [published later in Minutes]. Audience 00:48:41 Applause. Announcer 00:48:59 I want to thank Mr. Hine and also announce that the next reading is on January 26th, by the American poet John Logan . END 00:49:12

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Year-Specific Information: In 1969, Daryl Hine published Commonplaces (Unicorn Press), and had published Bluebeard’s wife (Pasdeloup Press) and Minutes: poems (Atheneum) and the play The Death of Seneca in 1968. Hines was working at the University of Chicago and was editing Poetry magazine.

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Local Connections: At different points in his career, Daryl Hine lived in Montreal, and studied at McGill University. He met Margaret Atwood (the event presenter) in 1963 in New York, and I assume that she offers the direct connection between Hine and Sir George Williams University. Regardless of this connection, Hine is an important and influential Canadian-American poet, editor, translator and writer.

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Cataloguer

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Original transcript and print catalogue by Rachel Kyne Original print catalogue, introduction, research and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones Additional research and edits Ali Barillaro

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Preservation

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Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file