CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5962
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
UBC Poetry Festival: Robert Duncan Lecture on August 5, 1963 tape 1 of 2 #44a
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Oral History
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Duncan, Robert
Dates:
1919-1988
Role:
"Speaker",
"Reader"
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
Role:
"Donor"
Notes:
In the inventory it states that he is a Donor and we are not sure what it means
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
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:
T00:35:04
Size:
33.6 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:32:25
Size:
31 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1963-08-05
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Venue:
UBC
Latitude:
49.2586
Longitude:
-123.2452
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 030 How a life grows in poetry
050 Kenkyusha – household oracle – pronouncement on the lecture: “office;” “expense” – as grievous experience; “upset, bewilder, throw off balance;” Judgment: “to prevent mistakes, to see that all is right.”
090 Office of the poet; poet not self expressing the self.
Poet – always has been an office; fulfilling office. Performing the office – unconcerned about whether the performance is good or not – performance of the poem like a mass – magical operation with language
120 “Expense: -- (self’s involvement in poem)
Transfer of heroic engagement: in the past, poet sang of heroes; all engagement with language is heroic today. Excess – heroic hubris. Throw off balance, upset, bewilder –“bankruptcy”
280 The poet’s need for woman’s intelligence as audience: Lawrence, Jeffers
320 Discovery of female intelligence to whom the poem is delivered up; drawn and recognized
“Numen” – spirit that inhabits place and act: inhabits because we call upon it
Story of Demeter’s oak: the attack on abundance; hubris; consequence – appearance of famine. The childhood “refusal to eat.” What is our work and what the attendance of the tree? Language as tree
480 Struggle against “initiation.”
520 Sacred, taboo nature of sexuality – in childhood, in adolescence
680 “other worlds” – Picture books, Greek myths
726 Reads “Often I am permitted to return to a meadow” (fr. The Opening of the Field.)
840 Creative faculty and its disturbance – the key is not to be told what one is doing
890 Formative – things kept secretive
970 Aura of personal power : not power over others. To move as a power, to know yourself as a power moving, to know yourself as a power in the language, among people
1035 Side one ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Fred Was Vancouver Poetry Festival August 5 1963 Robert Duncan Lecture
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