Panel discussion: "Spicer Vocabulary", Jack Spicer conference at New College of California with Larry Fagin, Lori Chamberlain, Ronald Silliman, and Robin Blaser, moderated by Michael Palmer on June 20, 1986 part 3 of 3 #395

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Swallow ID:
6313
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:
Panel discussion: "Spicer Vocabulary", Jack Spicer conference at New College of California with Larry Fagin, Lori Chamberlain, Ronald Silliman, and Robin Blaser, moderated by Michael Palmer on June 20, 1986 part 3 of 3 #395
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Speeches: Panels
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)

CREATORS

Name:
Fagin, Larry
Dates:
1937-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/94390890
Role:
"Speaker", "Reader"
Name:
Palmer, Michael
Dates:
1942-2013
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/100912074
Role:
"Speaker"
Notes:
Michael Palmer is the program's moderator
Name:
Chamberlain, Lori
Role:
"Speaker", "Reader"
Name:
Silliman, Ronald
Dates:
1946-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/112184153
Role:
"Speaker", "Reader"
Name:
Blaser, Robin
Dates:
1925-2009
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/17240199
Role:
"Speaker"

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MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:
Image
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
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:
T00:47:07
Size:
60.4 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:47:04
Size:
60.6 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files

Dates

Date:
1986-06-20
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card

LOCATION

Address:
San Francisco, California , United States
Venue:
New College of California
Latitude:
37.8667498
Longitude:
-122.2688401
URL:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/358818845#map=19/37.86675/-122.26884
Notes:
New College Berkley

CONTENT

Contents:
Side Track No. Comments One 000 Ron Silliman, continued Benjamin’s use of “intention” – equivalent to Spicer’s use of “love”, or later “prayer” 016 Intention’s role as naming. Naming and violence 037 The fifth poem of Down beat –“If this is dictation it’s driving we wild” 046 Robin Blaser introduced 055 Context and vocabulary/vocabulary and context “The intelligence of context is vocabulary and syntax hypotactic or paratactic.” 077 Blaser came to Berkeley as Hiawatha; Jack came as a detective with a foot in the century, by way of his father. Duncan arrived and dragged them into the century. An opening of vocabulary 111 “Vocabulary and context can only be understood in terms of the way we get into the century” we have to work to do it. It is a crime that few do, he says 125 Mallarme and deconstruction – the content of the word God The end of modernism = the end of 400 years of artistic intelligence, and the gift of the materiality of language 140 Talks of “Ecology of the Imagination” 153 Reads the Galahad passage of The Holy Grail 185 Helen Adolph “Viseo Paxus” Vision of Peace Spicer read it – the constant haunting quality of matters of the sacred. Sacred a central problem of the modern condition. We need to watch how its vocabulary works 214 Poetry of dictation – dictated by love Dante – his range of reference 242 Jack’s closest mentor is Yeats. (who misunderstood Blake) Yeat’s use of dictation 262 Language as outside self – giving it to the other, as opposed to “me – language” 270 A discourse of cosmos – in Spicer among other discourses – Not – supernaturalism 284 Parmenidean identity of thought and being in Spicer – not the same 294 Fundamental tradition of the other. We fear it B 000 Robin Blaser talking about Spicer’s letters 029 Rilke’s letters and The Duino Elegies as models for the elegies and the theory of dictation 030 Jack’s spelling and his linguistic geography job in Berkeley Alcohol and the demise of his spelling 085 Inclusion of women in Jack’s group – not a misogynist community 095 Spicer’s anti-semitism. As an extension of an incipient American anti-semitism 122 Spicer’s poem to/against Denise Levertov and her answer 5 years later, “White elephant” 144 Spicer and baseball – his belief that it is a fixed script 190 Dictation/translation/Benjamin 212 Radicality and vocabulary, 16-17th century. Sense of freed language 224 The murder of God – Nietztche, Mallarme, Spicer 258 Blaser – the history of the sacred and violence 274 The change of discourse and cosmos. The sacred remains 308 Death of meaning in Spicer 318 Use of blasphemy to charge up the community 323 The danger of contextualizing the sense of other in readings of Spicer 339 Discussion ends 352 St. Theresa, St. Ignacius, John Donne in Spicer’s vocabulary 377 Vocabulary founded in a dissociation between cosmic language and divine speaker 390 Refusal of Macrocosm, ego of speech act 436 Spicer’s language has no property – so it takes the form of the lack and the desire of the other 482 Blaser ends Questions 555 Spicer’s difference from Duncan’s language and romantic poets His favourite romantic – Byron, also Pope 612 Ends
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SFU BC Readings formatting

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