John W. Gerber interview with William Carlos Williams at The William Carlos Williams House, June 1950 #837

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:
5561
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Reading in BC Collection
Source Collection ID:
MsC 199
Source Collection Description:
Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Reading in BC Collection

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:
John W. Gerber interview with William Carlos Williams at The William Carlos Williams House, June 1950 #837
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Home recording
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)

CREATORS

Name:
Williams, William Carlos
Dates:
1883-1963

Name:
Gerber, John W

Name:
Sawyer, Miriam
Notes:
Director

Name:
Dollar, John
Notes:
Farleigh Dickinson Univerity

Name:
Swigg, Richard
Notes:
General Editor

Name:
Baker, Richard J
Notes:
Editor

Name:
Bradbury, Cliff
Notes:
Sound Engineer

Name:
Crick, Jeremy
Notes:
The program designed by him

Name:
Pargeter, Mark
Notes:
Business Manager

CONTRIBUTORS



MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:
Image
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
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:
T00:32:11
Size:
31.4 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files

Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:.33:34
Size:
32.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files

Dates

Date:
1950-06
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card

Date:
1951-01-13
Type:
Publication Date
Source:
J-card
Notes:
Broadcast on WNBC/WNYC

LOCATION

Address:
9, Ridge Road, Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States of America
Venue:
The William Carlos Williams House
Latitude:
40.8216
Longitude:
-74.1091

CONTENT

Contents:
Side 1 : June 1950 :Synopsis ; Parental history; Horace Mann School ; Early poetry ; Billy Abbott ; “A black black cloud” ‘ Meeting Pound ; Poetry and medicine ; “Danse Russe” ; Loneliness ; Retirement Recent publicity ; Artist and world’s brutality ; MacLeish ; Bearing arms ; Pound : eccentricity, egotism, excellence Side 2 : June 1950 : “This is Just to Say” ; American dialects ; Subjects for poetry ; Pediatric practice ; Humanism and socialized medicine ; Patients ; Radical poet ; “Ol’ Bunk’s Band” ; “Portrait of a Lady” ; Spanish and “el Hombre” ; Not “Tract” ; Objectification ; Unlike Eliot on religion ; Using the American language ; Priestly ritual and the poet as iconoclast ; Getting a prize
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting

NOTES


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