CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5911
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Roy Kiyooka reading at the College of New Caledonia #221
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Kiyooka, Roy
Dates:
1926-1994
Role:
"Reader",
"Donor"
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:
Poor
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other:
J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:59:43
Size:
58.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T01:09:53
Size:
67.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
LOCATION
Address:
Imperial Parking, 3330 22 Ave, Prince George, BC V2N 1P8
Venue:
The College of New Caledonia
Latitude:
53.90687
Longitude:
-122.78621
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Opening remarks – “I’m gonna show you some pictures – 100 slides of a day in Bolinas, Ca.”
008 No voice. Kiyooka resumes at 018, speaks of magazine White Pelican in honour of Sheila Watson – reproduced a couple of his rap sessions in the 1st session
032 Reads excerpts from these sessions – “made in Canada”
080 John Cage re “12 ready-made answers for all occasions”
094 “To be at the centre is where the ideas are – that is, to be in your own head, wherever you are”
100 “Art doesn’t support you” – gives resumé of varied jobs
122 “I’m not too interested in argument, particularly the kind that wants to argue “pathetics” – (esthetics?) – not that I’m not involved there, but simply – it’s not where my head is, most of the time.” (Conclusion of excerpt)
126 Reads another excerpt re/ “some aspects of education” :
140 Reads “My three kids, 14, 12 and 9…”
191 End of 2nd excerpt
193 “I’ll rad you a few letters” – (see Trans Canada Letters)
243 Reads letter to Gladys Hindmarch
364 “Dear Hugh”
393 “dear Brian”
438 “dear Bri”
464 Kimo Danji (?) (? Kim Ondaatje?) is the treasurer of CAR…This is a letter to her
489 Letter to George Bowering
562 “Some thoughts from the Point… last weekend in June.”
585 “A little thing from Allen Ginsberg” – reads “Yes, that’s what I wanted…”
590 “A true reproduction for Libby, Gretchen, Mary, Valerie and Ken” – Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island
612 “Another poem about Creeley’s in “Pieces” : (reads from “When he and I,” then reads “The Maritimes don’t seem to have that lovely pathos of paradise…”)
640 “A letter to Phil Whalen…”
665 “Here’s something that might tell you something about my being in Japan:: “For cool-hand Luke”
671 Sound breaks off
Two 000 Begins in process; R.K. reading “…agricultural transplant…”
023 “This letter is to my second daughter…” “Dear Jan I got my suit…”
050 “I wrote a letter to recommend a woman I know (?) for a LIP grant… to start something that may have been the equivalent of Ms… Thank god it didn’t get off the ground. Anyhow, To whom it may concern…”
072 “This is a letter I wrote to Brad Robinson from Halifax… Dear Engeldink…” [******]
130 Sound gets muddy
225 Letter to Brad Robinson ends. R.K. announces break
231 R.K. commences again: “I lived on fourth avenue…” These were written in 1964. Thy were printed in an issue of Imago magazine by George Bowering
239 Reads “Tonight nothing is enough…”
256 “John Newlove lived with me at that time, for a year, so a lot of these poems have to do with [that]
258 “Dear John: I threw out all your dirty socks…”
267 “The colour of death is black and white puked into a million homes…”
274 “The argument”
278 “How long have you floated in the gray scum in my coffee cup”
283 “John (?) has left, John too…”
303 “Leaves of grass grow in the pavement’s cracks where my comely daughter sings”
308 “For John (or Joss?) somethere in the world…”
316 “Already I inhabit another room…”
321 “This room, John…”
327 “Cherry blossoms in Nitobe Garden…”
331 “Postscript to the room…”
336 “In the mid-60s I did a book called Nevertheless These Eyes, a beginner’s attempt to define what poetry is all about to one man… [there are] 3 sections – each section has a crib of quotation from Stanley Spencer… a very eccentric English painter. It was after reading his biography that I wrote these poems. The poems purport to tell you something about the goddess through 4 or 5 voices.
361 Reads “Words to enliven the pedestal/she gyrates upon”
371 “This is a quotation slightly altered from the newspaper: “She was found in the early morning…”
383 “My hand covets whatever it can…”
386 “The image of her…”
389 “Among the shattered pieces of the mirror…”
392 “Across the meadow they come…”
398 “At least, the mirror framed her face perfectly…”
403 “The dead, the numinous ones…”
407 “Gaston La chaise you…”
415 “The wind ruffles her skirts…”
419 “In the meadow we lay in, the unseen wind…”
427 “Edward Munch stuffed her scream/into his painting…”
433 “In a room/full of mirrors…”
437 “Valentine”
447 “Since you asked me…”
455 “Her admonition”
461 “Now other faces…”
465 “Who/among you…”
469 “I thought I saw her…”
475 “She is not a collage…”
478 “The Beloved is/resilient…”
484 “Behind my eyes you move…”
489 “Men in the night/bite empty air…”
491 “O guardians of the meadow…”
495 “Now the shadow cast by the lid of the two (?)…”
498 “Climbing up into the mirror/ I sat between her thighs and fell asleep…”
506 “It was not that she was beautiful…” (That last poem is from H.D.’s book, called Helen in Egypt)
516 “I think I’ll leave it at that” (end of tape)
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Note:
The quality of the audio improves on the second side.
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Roy Kiyooka Reading at the College of New Caledonia
Side 1: 45:20
Side 2: 41:00
Very noisy and distorted Dolby B
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