CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5999
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
San Francisco/Vancouver Poets: George Stanley, Joanne Kyger, Gerry Gilbert, and Ebbe Borregaard discussion on March 9, 1970 #215
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Stanley, George
Dates:
1934-
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Gilbert, Gerry
Dates:
1936-2009
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Borregaard, Ebbe
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Kyger, Joanne
Dates:
1934-2017
Role:
"Speaker",
"Reader"
Name:
[Hauser, Gwen?]
Role:
"Reader"
Name:
Walker, John
Role:
"Reader"
Name:
Miles, Josephine
Dates:
1911-1985
Name:
Caccione, Marc
Role:
"Speaker",
"Reader"
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Quartermain, Peter
Dates:
1934-
Role:
"Donor"
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:
Good
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:41:32
Size:
39.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:42:23
Size:
40.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1970-03-09
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
San Francisco, California, USA
Latitude:
37.7870
Longitude:
-122.4673
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One [Left] 000 George Stanley re nostalgia
010 Gerry Gilbert (?) with story of ambassador and monk
018 Conversation re nostalgia and poems – what you’ve lost is your country.” – John Wieners –SF is our country
028 A criticism that is justified
034 “What holds me back is it seems to imply a criticism of the imagination to say that poetry in a sense consists of feeling about a lost home.” Would seem to detract from its function as creating a home…
041 Josephine Miles re 20s and 30s in California as a paradise which we have lost now
045 In the 50s – nostalgia for the city
056 The system using us as raw materials
064 Kyger : What is the point? G.S. – The point is that I accept nostalgia
067 J.K. – you sense a great nostalgia … some kind of fresh imprint that you get from something that’s not really clear… a fuzzy imprint – your influences and the feelings you feel then -
074 J.K. : Jack Spicer was a poet that was a strong person, wasn’t a published poet – hard to see clearly what’s gone into your life
090 G.S. – publishing serial poems as books – Spicer’s et al – an innovation. Those books represented competitiveness – desire to be known.
108 Question (?) – Is the movement that went on in SF in 50 – some odd – supposed to be reconstructed in 70? No.
111 G.G. – It seems as though we’ve learned quite a bit – We’ve done away with getting together to talk and reading together – with getting our books published and almost every poet from SF in ’60 and ’61 scattered
123 All over the world. Battle between Jack and Robert over the great world
133 Ebbe Borregaard (?) Don’t think he (Spicer) ever told me, “son, keep out of the great world.”
135 J.K.: Poetry up to that time had been in academic world – when things started to change, new image of what poetry was about, Jack’s position was, keep it right in the living room, don’t get close to the academic, don’t publish – when it became time to move on out, becomes a little difficult
147 J.K. : This afternoon being in an academic environment seemed to be a little bit risky…
152 J.K. : Where music is at today, has a much truer audience than where poets are in the university…
159 G.G. : Poets in Vancouver not connected to any institution but their own…
176 Marc Caccione (?) – Poetry (?) like a used car lot – a subjective existence. J.K. – Don’t despair – just do it. Forget about the analogy.
195 E.B. : Just despair all the harder – there’s no end, you know. Know R. Crumb? Pfeiffer – I think that’s where poetry is. Despair Comics
212 J.K. – I thought we should start to read or something…
214 E.B. – invites someone to read
222 J.K. speaks of reading in S.F. – everyone talking about Eastern mind – no rationalism – thought must be something to do with rational mind – so wrote piece on Descarte’s Discourse on Method – a clue to the Western mind – we just think it makes sense
242 Reads “Descartes and the Splendor of a Real Drama of Everyday Life in 6 parts.”
380 Ends
388 Sound ends abruptly
430 Sound picks up again
439 Gwen Hauser (?) speaks
448 G.H. (?) reads – “Of course I’m afraid of you.”
473 Reads “Everybody must have a vision/some are smaller than others.”
500 Reads “A Circle Goes Round a Man and Woman.”
517 Marc Caccione reads “Mooching Ferns”
667 M.C. reads “Hail North Beach”
760 John Walker reads 8 poems on cormorants off the coast of Sechelt
838 J.W. reads Big City Shaman
862 Reads “The stone shutters wrought close to the countered gate”
959 Reads Babyland Blues
980 Sound breaks off
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: SF/Vancouver Poets March 9, 1970 Stanley, Kyger, Stockholder Side 1: 31:40 Side 2 31:35
Type:
General
Note:
No one is introduced on the recording
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