CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6086
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Artie Gold reading at the Western Front on February 17, 1975 #285
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Gold, Artie
Dates:
1947-2007
Role:
"Reader"
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Knechtel, Mary Beth
Dates:
1943-
Role:
"Recordist"
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:
52.8 MB
Size:
T00:46:29
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:28
Size:
49.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1975-02-17
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
303 E 8th Ave E, Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1
Venue:
The Western Front
Latitude:
49.26391
Longitude:
-123.09869
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Artie Gold begins
012 “This is a… transmogrified Shakespearean sonnet…”
027 “Whatever you order at the Compromise Cafeteria…” (reads): “The climate of my dream…”
043 “I kiss her fever…” ( a love poem)
075 Speaks of native naming ritual
090 “I am False Bear…”
136 “Small man”
190 Speaks of Frank O’Hara
200 Reads “O’Hara died like Christ” (from Even yr photograph looks afraid of me, p. 26)
236 “I’ll do another thing – I did a bunch of things I called O’Hara Landscapes, which are sort of views of the poet asleep, forever.”
240 “Green grass and melons, vines trailing…”
283 “Outside my bus, endless dirt shoulder…”
316 “1947”
353 “There are a thousand parts of traveling long distances…”
372 “Novel”
437 “Alice B. Toklas…”
482 “Don Quixote and son”
503 “In Montreal, covers pulled over…”
536 Speaks of his collaborational poems with Geoff Young, editor of Stooge magazine, using lines from the poems of various poets. “We tried to weld these things on, like further distances measured on a chart or something…”
600 Reads from Mixed doubles: fifteen poems by Artie Gold and Geoff Young, San Francisco: The Figures, 1975.
604 “One” (“My year 4…”)
630 “Two” (5: praise from a grandmother for a mud pie lion…)
658 “Three” (“6: the found book…”)
685 “Four” (“Diana of the Ephesians”)
714 “Five” (“Egyptian embalmers and the sepulchral barge”)
741 “Six” (“The fight between the monster Tiamat…”)
769 “Seven” (“Where water is the parent of all things…”)
801 “Eight” (“Face illuminated by the sun and moon…”)
825 “Nine” (“The Babylonian hero wrestling the lion…”)
858 “Ten” (“tossing a bull”)
887 “Eleven” (“Standing on a gryphon”)
913 “Twelve” (“The carrying of mud bricks by yoke and cord…”)
938 “Thirteen” (“the dialectic of survival”)
967 “Fourteen” (“Everything I sought, seek”)
997 “Fifteen” (“What I will die not finding”)
1065 Speaks of the method he and Geoff Young used to compose these poems
1126 Sound breaks off; turn to side 2
Two (right channel) (channel 2)
000 A.G. speaking; in mid-sentence: “…and… Robert Bruce swimwear…”
033 “A Sirventes for Montreal in five sections” (“Five for Bruce”) in: Even yr photograph looks afraid of me, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1975.
035 “One (for Bruce)”
061 “Two (for Bruce)”
082 “Three”
107 “Four”
134 “Five”
185 “It’s hell down there, n’est ce pas?”
199 Reading ends
Two (left channel) (channel 1)
199 A.G. in mid-line: “…finally draws off, slithering down the hall, as the black cat turns back, craning his head to see what he won.”
204 “For years I’ve been sharing showers…”
213 “Don’t stop clapping ‘til I’m famous.”
259 “Having a coke with you” (from Love poems) “I would rather be willing in your arms now”, p.40 of EYPLAOM
273 “When there’s something sinister about the local hard facts…”
362 “The farmer of your tongue is growing poets for the cities…”
401 “Valentine’s day ballad”
427 “Another Pope poem… it’s got a great last line…”
448 “We counted the ways” (EYPLAOM, p. 46)
507 “We will visit a few towns…” (from Cheesecake)
530 “Inform the general/we are about to leave…” (from Cheesecake)
552 “It was a hell of a party…”
609 “Sometimes, as if life itself were the enemy…”
623 “She worries when I sleep a three day stretch…”
664 “The coffee’s not made yet” (p. 28 EYPLAOM)
684 “Sad, these winters, our cat sluthering…”
692 “Fable”
720 “Old poet fucker”
737 “Man, I knew we were about to be raided…”
750 “We ride tandem together,” (p. 41 EYPLAOM)
761 “Phrase book,” (p. 39, EYPLAOM)
775 “Mischief” (p. 51, EYPLAOM)
Two 789 “Each piece of Highway is like a jumbo jet passenger”
797 “My mind reaches out for a friend…”
805 “Sitting here before she dame…”
823 “Please shave my head…” (p. 63 EYPLAOM)
836 “There are areas where my mother was uncompromisable”
864 “The day I got my Hermes typewriter…”
896 “So I didn’t get my week of sleep…”
907 “Take me home,” I imagined”
920 “Calendars are very much like snakes and ladders”
952 “I near got botulloid scampi” (p. 13, EYPLAOM)
966 “Here’s a poem for my father: “Mike, while I was waiting for you to come, I browsed around some…”
997 “Crude Robert” p. 59 EYPLAOM
1014 “There’s a muse poem here”: “I sometimes park my convertible along the curb” (p. 29 EYPLAOM)
1062 “I have no astrologer…”
1094 “The week’s dirty poem”
1172 “Ultra modern times” (p. 16, EYPLAOM)
1211 “puddy/comes in…” (from Some of the cat poems, Montreal: Cross Country Press, 1978)
1218 “out walking my father’s dog…”
1246 “Here, 400 miles of Wall Street…”
1313 “Well, Daphne’s on a breather…”
1378 Reading ends (?)
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Artie Gold Reading at the Western Front, February 17, 1975 Side 1: 39:30 Beginning several minutes erased from master; continues to 42:20 Side 2: 42: 10 conclusion Recorded by Mary Beth Knechtel Dolby B
Note:
The Western Front is the donor as inventory says
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