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California"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tIntroduction by Robert Creeley\n\t\t025\tJohn Wieners reads “Chinoiserie”\n\t\t035\t“Night Boat to Cairo”\n\t\t058\t“The Mole Proposes Solitude”\n\t\t080\t“To Denise Levertov”\n\t\t083\t“Where Fled”\n\t\t093\t“Moon poems”\n\t\t108\t“The Serpent’s Hiss”\n\t\t117\t“The Imperatrice”\n\t\t137\t“Tuesday 7:00 PM”\n\t\t150\t“Le Chariot”\n\t\t169\t“Procrastination”\n\t\t185\t“The Suicide”\n\t\t206\t“Address to the Woman”\n\t\t213\t“I walk under the distant stars…”\n\t\t227\tWieners reads from the original manuscript of The Hotel Wentley Poems (these are different from the published versions)\n\t\t250\t“A poem for painters”\n\t\t339\t“A poem for the old man”\n\t\t361\t“Wracked by beauty, wracked by pain…”\n\t\t387\t“Grieving battle of swing”\n\t\t401\t“A poem to dawn”\n\t\t419\t“Cocaine”\n\t\t445\t“Watchman, what of the night?”\n\t\t507\t“My Mother”\n\nJohn Wieners reading at New York YM-YWHA\n\nSide\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nTwo\t\t\tJohn Wieners poetry reading\n\t\t000\tIntroduction\n\t\t016\tWieners reads “Diana”\n\t\t025\t“Invocation to Summer”\n\t\t035\t“Invitation au voyage II”\n\t\t056\t“Love”\n\t\t062\t“Time”\n\t\t069\t“Nocturne”\n\t\t089\t“Holy orders in life”\n\t\t109\t“Billy”\n\t\t118\t“LSD”\n\t\t131\t“Only lust rules there”\n\t\t143\t“A poem for vipers”\n\t\t165\t“A poem for painters”\n\t\t242\tReading ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"The Berkeley Poetry Conference Part 8 July 14th, 1965\\nJohn Weiners Reading\\nSide 1 37 min\\nSide 2 5 min\\nReading at the New York YM YWHA Oct 24th, 1966\\n21:25\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553284509699,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.732Z","score":5.5620456}]