CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6048
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Jack Spicer reading in Vancouver and Charles Olson in [Buffalo?] both on June 17, 1965 #237
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Spicer, Jack
Dates:
1925-1965
Role:
"Reader"
Name:
Olson, Charles
Dates:
1910-1970
Role:
"Reader",
"Speaker"
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:
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:
T00:37:03
Size:
35.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:47:34
Size:
45.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1965-06-17
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Inventory
LOCATION
Address:
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Latitude:
49.2727
Longitude:
-123.1554
Address:
Buffalo, NY 14260, United States
Venue:
[Buffalo – S.U.N.Y. (University at Buffalo)?]
Latitude:
42.9533
Longitude:
-78.8181
Notes:
This location is not confirmed
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Water sounds – to 028 See “Letter 14,” Brian Fawcett, 5 Books of a North Manual
028 Jack Spicer reading “Two poems for the nation” from Book of Magazine Verse
1. “Pieces of the past…”
038 2. “These big trucks drive and in each one…”
047 Six poems for Poetry Chicago: 1. “Lemon tree very pretty…”
056 3. “Pieces of the past…” *(Spicer explains repetition of this poem)
285 Ends in midst of “Seven Poems for the Vancouver Festival”, after 3. “Nothing but the last sun falling in the last oily water by the docks.”
286 Sound of water to 319
320 Charles Olson in middle of reading (at Buffalo?): “…They’re all written in what I call fivers (fibres)… The third one is called Capt. Christopher Levitt of York”
363 “7 years and you cld carry cinders in yr hand (Max 3)”
379 “…I’d like finally to end with the spirit of the world…” (Reads from “The Song of Ulikumi”)
450 Questions and remarks between audience and Olson
518 Conversation breaks off…
519 Olson, reading, “Mellow and enclosed, both the local and the past…”
530 Moves back to discourse: “so I’m really suggesting how much this poem, which was written ’59, is very loaded again…”
541 Reads “Astride the Cabot fault”
569 “What do you mean about the diorite stone lopped off at the left shoulder?” (Question from audience)
576 Speaks of Dan McLeod: “He showed me a thing in Vancouver I had never realized, that there’s a split in the Atlantic Ocean, a fault, which runs just where all my own intention has been. Nor ‘east, and that it runs right through Gloucester…”
597 “That which exists through itself is called meaning…”
609 “I was very lucky once to have what poets call visions”
630 Speaks of “the creature which the poem calls the diorite stone”
661 Sound increases in volume rapidly
670 “The stone is the truest condition of creation.”
692 “The only interest of a spiritual exercise is production.”
725 Reads “A little story about the condition of … two angels.”
760 Speaks of the ‘double’.
767 “I want to end by reading a poem I read in front of Ezra Pound two weeks ago in honor of him – and it fell dead.”
785 “the Wall/to arise from the River, the Diorite Stone to be lopped off the Left Shoulder.” (from “Astride/the Cabot/fault”)
809 “that there is no world except that we are the pictures of it…”
826 “the overt spiritual exercise of initiation in initiated in us… for having been born”
835 Sound ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Jack Spicer and Charles Olson Side 1: Sound of Water 2:30 Reading by Jack Spicer 20 More Water 2:30 Lecture by Charles Olson 3:30 Side 2: Olson continued, but incomplete 27:37 Dolby B
Note:
The first part of this tape duplicates J.S. reading The Book of Magazine Verse; see Tape #96 side 1 & 2 for better copy
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