CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5812
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Gunslinger Part 1: Ed Dorn reading from Books I and II and The Cycle in Munich on February 20, 1975 Tape 1 of 3 #559a
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright (InC)
Notes:
Copyright by Edward Dorn, 1975, and S Press Tonbandverlag, Dusseldorf/Munchen, West Germany, 1975. All Rights Reserved
CREATORS
Name:
Dorn, Edward
Dates:
1929-1999
Role:
"Reader",
"Author"
Name:
Köhler, Michael
Dates:
1946-2005
Role:
"Recordist"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Very Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:22
Size:
29.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:21
Size:
29.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1975-02-20
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Latitude:
48.1597
Longitude:
11.5638
CONTENT
Contents:
Side
Track
No.
Comments
One
000
Edward Dorn : Gunslinger Part One
022
“I held the reins of his horse…”
052
“an inward cast. They cause culture. Honk…”
070
“Howard? I asked…”
091
“Well boy, that was singular...”
112
“Because he was sayin some of the abstractest…”
123
“The Gunslinger sang…”
144
“No, my horse is not a Texan…”
170
“Thus we sat and still I knew not the principle of which he spoke”
194
“and the Bombed Horse took off his Stetson…”
217
“and he looped toward the juke then…”
243
“Into the cord of that question…”
269
“…changed its mind, muttering something about having been up too late last night…”
295
“your attempt is close but let me warn about having been up too late last night…”
322
“by that name leave, or come…”
349
“Well what do yu do I persisted”
377
“…into each chamber goes one bit of my repertoire…”
400
“the Song about a woman”
443
Gunslinger, Book II :”This tapestry moves…”
484
“Have you noticed how everboring the following day is…”
523
“I see we are yet some distance outside Universe City…”
563
“And oh in the cool lateral morning even in the cool wide burn…”
602
“My fathers seed burst away…”
637
“That aint grammatical, Poet”
681
“Imagine that, Lil said patting I’s stiff knee”
727
“What subtle richness he whispered…”
774
“But I see none of my friends grazing there…”
826
“There was the faintest semblance of a smile on I’s posthumous mouth.”
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes, has become a minor classic.
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