CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6056
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 at the Vancouver Poetry conference on August 5, 1963 #103b
Title Source:
J-card and inventory
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Duncan, Robert
Dates:
1919-1988
Role:
"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
Storage Capacity:
T01:17:22
Extent:
1/8 inch
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
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:
T00:46:20
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:
T00:47:00
Size:
33.3 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
Date:
1963-07-26
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Inventory
Date:
1963-07-25
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Inventory
LOCATION
Address:
6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Venue:
UBC
Latitude:
49.2586
Longitude:
-123.2452
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
Two A 000 Robert Duncan reading his poems; announces reading will be from Opening of the Field (New York : Grove Press, 1960) & from “work written since 1960 that hasn’t been printed” (most of which appears in Roots & Branches (New York : Scribner’s, 1964)
006 “The Question.” (Opening of the Field, p. 54)
033 “Three sections from a long continuous work called Structure of Rime… it’s literally continuous, it has no terminous [sic] point at all… I’m going to read now, IX X and XI (O F 71, 72, 73)”
038 “The Structure of Rime IX”
056 “The Structure of Rime X” (“… where thi* has the sound of tree and thA has the sound of nut”)
075 “The Structure of Rime XI”
093 “Ingmar Bergman’s SEVENTH SEAL (O F 93)”
120 “Now I’m going to read a long poem, ‘Apprehensions,’ and then later, a sequence of Romantic odes…”
131 “Apprehensions 1” (Roots and Branches, 30)
160 “Apprehensions 2. The Directive” (R&B 32)
197 “Apprehensions 3” (R&B, 35)
248 “Apprehensions 4. (Structure of Rime XIV): (R&B, 39)
267 “Apprehensions 5. (First Poem)” (R&B, 39-40)
281 “Apprehensions 5. (Second Poem)” (R&B, 40-42)
309 “Apprehensions 5. (Close)” (R&B, 42-43. Duncan does not read the line “the orders of the stars and of words;” as printed, p. 43)
339 “Come, Let Me Free Myself” (R&B, 55)
356 “Risk” (R&B, 56)
420 “Now I want to read a later series of the Structure of Rime…”
424 “The Structure of Rime XVI” (R&B,
438 “The Structure of Rime XVII” (R&B, 65-66. Reads “Come, my love” before stanza beginning “Desire paces Eternity…”)
462 “The Structure of Rime XVIII” (R&B, 67)
485 (Tells story of letter from editor of mag. Set, for which D. wrote the following poem:
continues:
Side Track No. Comments
Two 495 “Osiris and Set” (R&B, 67)
555 “Two Presentations” (from Windings, R&B, 73-76)
649 Sings “A Song of the Old Order.” (O F, 52-53)
695 “This is a song from a different kind of wife, from a Halloween Masque…”
708 Sings “A Country Wife’s Song” (from A Play with Masques, R&B, 94-97)
747 “This is a set of romantic hymns that owes something to Mike McClure”
769 A Set of Romantic Hymns, R&B, 106-115.
917 “I’ll read four sonnets…”
950 “Sonnet 1” (R&B, 122)
965 “Sonnet 2” (R&B, 123)
983 “Sonnet 3 / from Dante’s Sixth Sonnet” (R&B, 124)
1004 “Sonnet 4 (“He’s given me his thee to keep…”) (in Bending the Bow, New York : New Directions, 1968, 3)
1052 Sings again “A Country Wife’s Song.”
1105 “A little, tidy, little old closing…”
1115 “Poem Beginning with a line by Pindar,” (O F, 62-69)
1371 (Recorded at another time (?))” The Continent,” (R&B, 172-176.)
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Very poor sound
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Robert Duncan at the Vancouver Poetry conference August 5, 1963 Side 1 46:20 Side 2 46:02 Dolby B
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