CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6083
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Daphne Marlatt reading on November 6, 1970 #282
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Marlatt, Daphne
Dates:
1942-
Role:
"Reader"
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
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:
Excellent
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:
T00:30:05
Size:
29.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:15
Size:
29.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1970-11-06
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 D.M. speaking – announces she will be reading from The Vancouver poems
007 Two quotes: from Rimbaud: “Je est un autre,” from Randy Newman: “She say I/talk to strangers/ if I want to/coz I’m a stranger too.”
017 “Lagoon”
038 “The first poem in the book is sort of an entranceway into the book as a whole. In some ways it sets up my method…” Speaks of Nō plays, the central figure of spirit plays, the shīte.
057 Re/ the Kwakiutl and the Hamatsa society
071 “Wet fur wavers” (“A Spanish Banks poem”)
089 This is about the old public library, the Carnegie Library… located in the heart of skid row…”
094 “Slimey…”
128 “’It’s rained…’”
151 “One last one that connects with the Kwakiutl Hamats’a society re/ “Baxbakaulany Xsuve” – the original spirit who informed the Hamats’a who gave them their cannibal rite… The first one to eat man at the mouth of the river” (see notes at back of Vancouver poems)
191 “This is dedicated to: ‘Aloazar, Cecil, Belmont, New Fountain, names/ stations of the way, to/Entrances’”
228 “Little poems for my niece who has a thing about bugs… so I wrote these four poems to explain to her what it was like to be a bug…”
232 “Bugs in the heart (for Karen)”
246 “Agenda”
253 “Points west or southwest…” (small break in sound)
263 “Depressed/area space/lived in…”
271 Small drop in volume, up again by 275
280 “Bird of passage” (“a poem I wrote when I was 7 or 8 months pregnant”)
317 The original Vancouver poem… “Old bird…”
342 “About Vancouver’s first in 1886… there are a lot of quotes in here and… all of them are taken from a historical journal put out by the city archives… concerned with W.H. Gallagher’s eyewitness account.”
358 “’Our city is ashes…’”
400 “This is Bowen Island: ‘Bowen. Leaving snug coves behind…’”
429 “I knew there was a bridge in Vancouver with a jack-knife span that opened like London Bridge… it began to be confused in my mind with the old Second Narrows Bridge…”
441 Your/gray-green fathoms un/fathomed…”
479 “This is also a skid row poem. It’s a combination of present and past…”
498 “Trails…”
527 Sound ends after poem “Trails” finishes.
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Daphne Marlatt Reading at Richard Pender Books Side 1: 29:15 Side 2: Blank Dolby B
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