Robert Kroetsch Open Interview with George Bowering, Fred Wah, and Roy Miki at SFU on July 10, 1986 Tape 1 of 2 #574

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:
5832
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:
Robert Kroetsch Open Interview with George Bowering, Fred Wah, and Roy Miki at SFU on July 10, 1986 Tape 1 of 2 #574
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Interview
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)

CREATORS

Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/1330211
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Miki, Roy
Dates:
1942-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/94949252
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Kroetsch, Robert
Dates:
1927-2011
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489
Role:
"Interviewer"

CONTRIBUTORS

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:
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
Sound Quality:
Good
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:
T00:31:50
Size:
34.5 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:35
Size:
32.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files

Dates

Date:
1986-07-10
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card

LOCATION

Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2767
Longitude:
-122.9178
URL:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/102254132

CONTENT

Contents:
Side Track No. Comments One 30:14 min 000 Roy Miki opens the discussion as George Bowering and Fred Wah arrive 036 The Long Poem and Wallace Stevens 050 Kroetsch talks about teaching in the United States. The Odyssey and The Divine Comedy as introductions to the long poem form 086 Patterson and Williams’ insistence on local pride 114 relation of American poetry to Kroetsch’s rural Canadian background 138 Fred Wah talks about Olson studies in Buffalo, 1964 160 Influence of Williams 189 The New Criticism and John Donne as a model of lyric complexity 212 Study of the long poem as a lesson in construction of the novel 289 Discovering an old seed catalogue in an archive in Calgary, 1975, and the poem “Seed catalogue” coming together 337 Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” as a model, and the method of adding more material 361 Incompletion as an exciting model in [Chancer]*, Spencer & Whitman 396 Tape ends Two 26:25 min 000 “Applegarth” publication of The Ledger 036 The idea of Field notes – notes towards a fiction 083 T.S. Eliot as the failed modernist poet. Kroetsch’s resistance of the notion of poet in Four Quartets 126 The Last Phoenicians – non-sacred language 157 Is there a difference between failing and abandoning a poem? 188 Kroetsch’s sense of rapport with bp Nichol, Bowering, Marlatt, Wah 208 Difference between Canadian & American Experience. Canadians live with a fragmentation which can be explored in the long poem 257 Levi-Strauss’ idea of bricaleur, as long-poem poet 281 Use of prose-poem form. An anxiety concerning the line 226 End of tape
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting

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