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He felt he was romanticizing, turning ordinary human experience into a mythic dimension; but wanted to get back to what is heroic on its own terms, and what is interesting in everyday life\n\t\t033\tHe discusses Burke Sproxton’s book Headframe about Flin Flon\n\t\t044\tPauline Butling : that romanticizing impulse has plagued Nichol from the start.  How does he resist it?\n\t\t047\tbpN: What is seductive about it is a voice tone he can get into.  It can become the “lyric I” or the “self-aggrandizing I” that is treacherous.  There’s no modulation of tone\n\t\t069\tbpN: In the Plunkett Hotel is a new poem, but is the best writing out of the experience of his earlier work\n\t\t093\t“Plunkett Hotel” comes out of a maternal grandmother’s family reunion Nichol attended in Plunkett, Saskatchewan\n\t\t181\tButling reads quote of Frank Davey’s criticizing bp Nichol’s work as irrelevant “visual poetry” and stating that poetry is still a language, and language of sound, rhythms, stress and pitch, and not just visual shapes\n\t\t204\tUnexplained search for a source (to the aforementioned quote??)  Nichol speaks of Alfred Kallir, who wrote Sign and Design, a psychogenetic (?) history of the alphabet; first published a monograph in 1944 called V is for Victory, then expounded on alphabet of the history of the world in Sign and Design, (an influential text for Nichol)\n\t\t221\tButling asks about The Flower Poem, recorded on High Barnett cassettes\n\t\t266\tMasaoka Shiki – Japanese poet mentioned by Nichol.  Nichol says he is doing a paraphrase of Shiki’s haiku from his First Record of my Peonies\n\t\t276\tPB: Likes context, and says criticism must establish a context in which the work can be read\n\t\t283\tbpN: Criticism is a written record of a reading process and provides the reader with a different accessing of the book\n\t\t301\tDiscussion of bp Nichol’s use of epigrams – Epi stands for epigrams a reversal of the technique he later gets into with the mathematical signs\n\t\t342\tBp Nichol refers to the Lost Literature of Medieval England; one of his fascinations is with works that don’t last.  In this book on books which were written, but no copies exist, was a reference to Buamundus; a character which has only one reference in English literature.  A child is named Buamundus as a joke, but we don’t know what the joke means\n\t\t363\tReferences to the meanings of crow\n\t\t372\tHistorically there are 2 St. Valentines.  One of them has the crow as his totem, found in the Dictionary of English Saints\n\t\t382\tButling is looking for themes of the multiples of doubles\n\t\t397\tNichol talks about returning to the idea of a historical narrative in The Martyrology in Book 1 and Book 6\n\t\t405\tNichol talks about taking 2 actual disciples of Christ about whom nothing is known and using the historical actuality that real people provide\n\t\t423\tButling asks about the rhetorical voice in Waves Against the Boat as the one Nichol is always resisting.  Is it o.k. to use it here because it is historical?\n\t\t424\tNichol says he is not taking personal history and claiming for himself privilege by being connected to mythic figures.  If we say our grandparents were mythic, we are saying we are one with the gods.  This is self-aggrandizement, two generations removed, whereas Nichol is using the tools of history to describe a certain situation and to deal with the problem in writing that kind of historical narrative\n\t\t433\tContinental Trance is the Canadian travel poem taken on.  Butling calls it the apocalyptic narrative\n\t\t438\tButling asks if Nichol investigated the research on the Bible in connection to the two figures Nichol uses.  Refers to the debate around the figure of Daniel\n\t\t444\tNichol refers to an MA thesis of a friend on James, the younger brother of the Lord – Jesus’ younger brother, used in his research, as well as alternate histories of the church, documents written by drooling fanatics, non-drooler documents, etc.\n\t\t454\tNichol found information to prove the Catholic Church did wipe out the English Christian Church, that was seen as a pagan tradition\n\t\t467\tNichol talks about a piece of work that is unnamed.  Butling asks where Nichol is “at” in terms of Book 5.  Suggests a real sense of loss\n\t\t491\tThe notion of imperfection is crucial to the whole beginning idea of The Martyrology.  Failure, imperfection, success has to be there structurally.  It is an argument with the notion that history was on a superhuman scale rather than “just a bunch of assholes that went around beating people up”\n\t\t516\tDiscussion of Vander Zalm leading people down the garden path with simplicity in poetics vs. the difficult structure of The Martyrology\n\t\t530\tButling comments on the structure of The Martyrology.  Bp Nichol suggests people approach his poetry like music and take what they like from it\n\t\t536\tNichol tells anecdote of a reading to students at Mohawk College in the 70’s\n\t\t580\tButling: How do you see these books interacting with one another?\n\t\t582\tBook 6 began with the imperfection of prophecy; up until then The Martyrology consisted of separate books begun and finished individually.  Nichol discusses how this changes with the carryover of themes in Book 5 to Book 6.  The twelve chains of Book 5 became the six books of Book 6\nTwo\t\t007\tSide Two Tape 1 begins\n\t\t015\tNichol discusses family reunion and his poetic themes; “The grace of the moment,” in which one finds the strength to deal with death\n\t\t084\tButling questions the use of form in The Martyrology\n\t\t093\tNichol discusses the dialogue between closed form and open form\n\t\t107\tNichol on inspiration and states of mind and The Book of Hours\n\t\t165\tButling on the arbitrariness of forms and the contemporary poet, does this form avoid the poet’s ego?\n\t\t188\tNichol discusses the structures “The Plunkett Hotel”, and Continental Trance\n\t\t197\tButling: Does taking those arbitrary forms free you from thinking about form?\n\t\t199\tNichol says it creates an extra tension, an external factor and elaborates briefly\n\t\t220\tButling: Does the punning and word play get you away from intention?\n\t\t223\tNichol talks about the objectivity these bring in to the work.  Point of view creates reality and its own argument\n\t\t240\tButling asks if the post-modern poets have dealt with the modernist question of absence through form\n\t\t284\tButling notes that word play hasn’t become dull or repetitive in Nichol’s work\n\t\t295\tNichol discusses formal advance of structure in Books I-VI\n\t\t317\tNichol talks about ideas for a new form for Book 10; The Bard project, a kind of Frankenstein monster of form in which he would work his way through every closed and open form\n\t\t440\tThey discuss Phyllis Webb’s poetry\n\t\t474\tGossip about the Montreal scene, F.R. 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Discussion ensues about the form of meditation as a circle and The Book of Hours requiring no closure\n\t\t181\tButling: How are you consciously involved in form or are you?\n\t\t188\tBp Nichol cites “In the Plunkett Hotel” as an “in/from” structure that grew from the idea, whereas a more perceptual piece emerges as Nichol writes it and that dictates form, “Inchoate Road”\n\t\t215\tButling: You have to make choices about what you are writing, what is the basis for those decisions?\n\t\t223\tNichol responds that it is the play and the subjects that are arising that dictates form.  What is the piece about?  It is a piece of thinking, and he is trying to make the thinking cohere while not being obvious about it.  Possibilities present themselves: some discussion this\n\t\t256\tButling suggests that as soon as The Martyrology begins to deepen that it immediately goes back to surface\n\t\t259\tNichol says that is a conscious choice because statemental voice is too obvious and he would rather make a leap to something else.  It is a working out of ekstasis, not giving a person his vision in a narcissistic sense, but giving the person an experience of vision\n\t\t289\tThen he will cut to the didactic voice as a relief or a release from the other voice.  This becomes musical pacing as sometimes he will say something rather than show it for the rhythm of the poem\n\t\t290\tNichol on Ondaatje’s “Billy the Kid” poem as an example of this\n\t\t311\tBp Nichol explains that he is primarily led by the ear, and then led visually\n\t\t314\tWhat about morality?  Butling asks\n\t\t339\tNichol complains that much writing becomes a panacea, that writers used to pretend that they were more in control than they were, that literature presented an idea of life being utterly controllable.  Discussion of Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Charles Olson in this vein\n\t\t386\tNichol explains a notion he is working on; that which is unsignable, not because of a failure on the author’s part, but because it lies outside the range of that which is signable (linguistic-signed)\n\t\t395\tHe wants to use the medium of that which is written to talk about that which is unwritable.  He elaborates on presenting an essence, the blank page, not as a blank book, and putting the readers into the frame of mind where they will look at the page in a certain way\n\t\t405\tDiversion into bp Nichol’s expression “real mysteries”\n\t\t423\tNichol’s experience as a therapist and structures and systems that function for individuals; the self as multiple consciousnesses.  Pataphysics and “Probably systems”\n\t\t457\tButling senses absence in Nichol’s early work;’ questions if this is outside the self (Book 1 and 2)\n\t\t459\tNichols discusses alienation from the self as a reason why he was in therapy\n\t\t470\tWriters would create personas as a solution to absence, suggests Nichol\n\t\t479\tNichol’s mistrust of adjectives – all they say is the noun is weak\n\t\t486\tThe pun works like reference, it opens up additional worlds – pun provides multiple chords, like music, which becomes a “packing the noun”\n\t\t502\tNichol discusses the alienation of the self and title The Martyrology, and Books 4, 5 and 6\n\t\t511\tNichol takes on the Christian subtext in “really seriously”\n\t\t516\tNichol says The Martyrology attempts to work out a “no gimme” relationship to the concept of God.  He wants a relationship to God that does not include the notion of heaven, in which he “gets nothing for it”\n\t\t530\tIn the work there is also a tension of looking at that sense of loss historically and at the same time attempting to embrace \n\t\t539\tNichol says that life is in the present, a notion that connects with other ideas in The Martyrology of the dailiness of living and the argument with history\n\t\t543\tNichol’s favourite word in The Martyrology is ‘now’.  A discussion ensues regarding the philosophy of living in the present\n\t\t560\tNichol: The goal of high modernism gets us into trouble because it is to live beyond the moment\n\t\t568\tNichol says, “popular poetry” will talk of this tradition of the 20th century modernists in a way that is antithetical to world peace.  Nichol’s provisional solution is to make the work of art something that has history in it, but that also has the absolute reading of the moment in it\nTwo\t\t008\tSide 2 begins.  Nichol on fluid structure as counter to the high modernist notion that art is eternal\n\t\t015\tButling & Nichol discuss the contradiction between the argument with systems and structure that there isn’t any one, but may; but still giving a structure, creating a work that will live beyond the artists\n\t\t039\tNichol argues that it should not be presented as a prescription, but to present things side by side: statement/non-statement, concreteness/abstraction, coherence/incoherence oscillating within the same structure\n\t\t065\tThe Martyrology becomes a model of an approach to poetics\n\t\t122\tNichol: The minute I die [the structure’s] fixed… I want to revise my will so that it’s really obvious the thing should be published in its state, it shouldn’t be cleaned up\n\t\t142\tButling wants to talk about politics as an issue for Nichol partly because it’s an issue for Phyllis [Webb]\n\t\t159\tNichol sees his work as political but not in the sense of an Octavio Paz or Pablo Neruda.  Discussion ensues on Barthes, politics in art, and a Puritan approach; comments of Robert Kroetsch\n\t\t196\tYou have to have an imagination of difference, of a possibility of difference in the world, because Nichol cannot see the isms we have as working\n\t\t200\tThe problem with even talking about this [political solutions to complex if not insoluble problems] is that it begins to sound like a justification for it.  The analogy with talking about Americans’ ignorance of Canadian writing\n\t\t227\tThe problems begin in the mind and how people formulate problems and solutions – Nichol\n\t\t245\tOn deconstruction, concrete poetry not leading to chaos or dead ends; concrete poetry seen as ‘barbarism’, to take Louis Dudek’s terms.  Nichol discusses Dudek’s hostility to concrete poetry although realizing the use by Nichol’s generation of his own work\n\t\t270\tModernism as failure in proposing a permanent coherence; Nichol on Pound’s Cantos\n\t\t365\tNichol and Butling begin to review Nichol’s “The Grace of the Moment” (The Martyrology Book 6, VI) to examine what choices are open to him.  Poem beginning “The Grace of the Moment” is discussed, referencing Nichol’s work process as it pertains line by line to this work\n\t\t423\tNichol’s choice for words will be that which keeps as many meanings in the air as possible\n\t\t439\tThe Martyrology as a piece of music; the first time through you will hear certain things, the second time through certain others.  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