CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6185
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Robert Creeley Reading at the Western Front on November 14, 1975 #294
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Creeley, Robert
Dates:
1926-2005
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:
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:
T00:52:15
Size:
52 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:51:25
Size:
51 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1975-11-14
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 Robert Creeley speaking, introduction recalling summer of ’63, poetry conference at UBC – speaks of Allen Ginsberg’s current activities as “W.C. Williams”.
060 “The I ching: biting through”
076 “Two of the people in (Bolinas) are in this story…Joanne Kyger… and Peter (?)”
093 “Big things and little things’ (from Presences, a text for Marisol, New York: Scribner’s, 1976, section one)
200 Speaks of Donald Sutherland’s “On, comma, Romanticism.” Reads the epigram to Presences, which is taken from Sutherland’s book. Explains background of “Big things and little things…”, his meeting with Marisol.
395 Speaks of James Hillman’s Revisioning psychology
408 “It is a scene…” (Presences, sect 4)
573 “From a piece called Mabel … a kind of homage to Burroughs… (see Mabel : a story, London : Marion Boyars, 1976, p. 151)
729 “Explains…that the kind of women you have in mind are not persons of the town,” (the line is from p. 153)
740 “Think of the good times…” (Mabel, p. 152)
1013 Sound ends, side one ends
Two 000 Applause…
003 I want to read the poem that Bob Rose… (printed). James Hillman… pointed out that the whole sense of image in so-called western cultural patterns is really inhibited… and either moving towards what he calls the Judeo and or Hebraic pattern…monotheistic…or else you move to the Hellenic, which is the pluralistic, many-changing spatial trip, and I would simply opt for the plurality, I suppose, and the most information I have of it, is, like this, you dig:
030 “The plan is the body” (Creeley is reading from a broadside printed by Bob Rose for Prester John, Vancouver, B.C., 1975 – prepared for the occasion of Creeley’s reading at the Western Front.)
095 (Creeley reads from his notebook)
112 Speaks of Laurie Gilpin, a photographer
128 “Possible statement in novel…”
144 A supper menu
153 “Wake in white-washed simple room in Spain”
170 “Thinking of Joanne Kyger: “These days flooded with preoccupation, mind flooded with mind…” (“I was thinking of a poem of hers called September.”)”
Two 180 “Wind in the wet upper spaces of a tree/yeah/reality’s wet.”
184 “In the forest”
190 “People…”
197 “Happy home”
201 “Bobbie’s got one here: ‘Like this one. This is a beautiful one.’”
204 “Like a like…”
205 “Come here moon…”
216 “I don’t like one word poems…”
217 “It hurts to have to hear you…”
224 “Forgotten it all…”
231 “Why Dorothy’s wise…”
233 “Something doesn’t necessarily happen after something”
237 “Music…”
250 “Secrets”
256 “Thinking of sea” (or C?)
265 “World” (“a root in Wir eld… a human age”)
279 “To be alive is to be in each place come to…”
296 (Interrupts: “I’m just reading some recent poems…”)
297 “A lot of it’s here”
298 “So”
305 “Stan Brakhage apropos himself in Naropa scene, Boulder: ‘I was their token local.’”
309 “Bobbie’s phrase apropos LeRoi Jones: ‘AKA Baraka’”
314 “Mean”
334 “Here is a poem that I like that was written when Warren (Tallman) was happily down in Bolinas…” (speaks of the artist John Chamberlain and invitation of Houston Art Gallery to R.C. to come read on occasion of John Chamberlain’s opening there. Reads:)
386 “For John”
478 “I’ll read the other poem to him (Chamberlain)…”
501 Speaks of Bob Grenier, a poet who works in word spaces and patterns, …”He did for me a generous job; he did a Selected poems for me that I couldn’t truly do myself, and this is hopefully coming out sometime this next year (1976)… He would not put a poem in, like “I propose to you a body bleached…” He would include this poem”:
550 “The box” from Words, rpt. Selected poems, New York : Scribner’s p. 76
569 “This book is one Chamberlain called – he said, ‘You’re busy measuring everything.’ It’s… a book that’s persistently involved with measure I’ll read you one that has literally to do with measure, called “Distance.” It has to do with a photograph by Harry Callahan…”
597 “Distance” from Words, rpt. Selected poems, p. 60.
Two 704 “I get this quote in a book by James Hillman again… from Whitehead that said: ‘Importance is the…emotional worth you are.’”
729 “dimensions” (from Words, rpt. Selected poems, p. 67)
780 “I never had a chance to read this poem… It began here, actually, in Warren’s house some years ago. And – this is it – we can all go home. It’s called:”
789 “Bolinas and me” (for Stan Persky) (from A day book, rpt. In Selected poems, p. 164)
972 Sound ends mid-poem, side 2 ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Robert Creeley at the Western Front, November 14, 1975 Side 1 31:55 Side 2 31:10 Tape ran out before end of reading Dolby B
Note:
The Western Front is the donor as inventory says
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