CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6076
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Discussion of writing by Stan Persky at The College of New Caledonia #270
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Speeches: Talks
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Persky, Stan
Dates:
1941-
Role:
"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:
J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:38:22
Size:
36.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:39:01
Size:
36.8 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:
53.90701
Longitude:
-122.78238
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Opens with Persky speaking in mid-sentence: “I’m not interested in art…but in the world.”
012 Woman’s voice (?): “You’re challenging something we’ve accepted…for a long time… that art has an interrelation with life…”
015 Conversation continues re/ “not poetry, but writing e.g. Falconbridge”
030 “Canada is predisposed to good writing in political economics”
039 Comment by another woman at low volume – needs turning up to be audible
050 Questions & comments continue
060 Re/ writing in the north of B.C.
090 Re/ “imagination” not part of Persky’s experience as a writer`
100 Re/ false ideas about art, writing
110 “Most poets I know of aren’t very good, very interesting, don’t know enough to produce interesting poetry at this point – that’s the extremity of my arrogance at this point…”
118 Stan Shafer (?): “So you’re saying that you’re not very interested in the personal, then… that imagination is a very personal, subjective thing…”
122 Re/ cultural conditioning
140 Re/ Vietnam war; speaks of “disappearance of Vietnam from news coverage after 1975; of an Italian journalist’s book on the defeat and retreat of the U.S. on April 30, 1975.
153 Reads Phuoc Binh statement. (Phuoc Binh refers to a battle that took place Jan., 1975) (See Wrestling the angel, p. 173)
218 Conversation re/ the poem Phuoc Binh statement
230 Re/ abstraction of poetry and social unconsciousness; “poetry as an escape… too few people read poetry for it to be an escape…”
270 “…Dante is the most political, economic poet in writing so far…” … that is not what most writers are doing… occasionally a complaint about how terrible things are – never a solution about how to make things better.
284 Conversation ensues re/ solution to social problems; the solution brought about the Vietnamese victory over U.S. imperialism, Q: “You’re one of those people who think that… those people are better off for having won the war?” A: “For having won the war, yeah.”
312 Q: “What about the question of what do you believe? Is that relevant?”
A: “It’s not specific enough.”
327 Q: “are there no poets who are working along the grain of what you’re talking about?” A: “Oh, yeah, there are lots of them… Mayakovsky… poets in Vietnam after the revolution…”
340 Discussion of the heated exchange re/ Vietnam which occurred earlier
364 Sound cuts off
367 Stan Shafer makes announcement of following poetry reading, for Nov. 22; introduces “Stan Persky, from Terrace.”
380 Introductory remarks
392 “I should say that my occupation is teaching anthropology, political economy, sociology and history of the Canadian working class. My activity as a writer… of poetry is spare time activity.”
420 “Topic Sentence” (in Wrestling the angel, p. 131)
610 “…Childhood socialization and learning process, that’s what it’s called. Well I call that politicization,” re/ teaching people to write
630 “I feel obligated to read ‘a poem,’ ‘cause I don’t intend to read many poems this evening”
633 Reads “Lake”
657 “Comic river” (the piece as printed in Wrestling the angel, p. 140) begins @ 723
927 Sound breaks off, recording ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Stan Persky Reading at The College of New Caledonia (No Date) Discussion of writing -- talent, climate, society Side 1: 31 min Side 2: 31 min Poor mic placement and very noisy fan make it difficult to hear some audience comments Dolby B
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