CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5752
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:
Douglas Blazek reading from published and unpublished poems, 1970 #489
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Blazek, Douglas
Dates:
1941-
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:
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:
T00:30:32
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:
T01:01:00
Size:
61.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1970
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 From All Gods Must Learn to Kill
“Cartwheel news flashes from paper cut-outs”
050 “Ballad of the San Francisco cardboard boxes”
064 “I have a habit of x-ing out”
082 “Room drownings”
120 “Myatis”
160 Plays the harmonica
168 From Skull Juices – unpublished manuscript
“to my love, who was cleaning the basement”
215 “Slowly – the procession”
273 From Broken knuckle poems – unpublished
“Swift entry and slow retreat”
298 From Flux and Reflux – unpublished “The signature of mysteries in the universe”
312 From Exercises in Memorizing Myself –unpublished
“Up again, 5 am, and thinking, thinking”
333 “Putting it straight”
363 From Baptismal Corruption in the Sunflower patch – “For Dolly, who should know better, and for life, which does”
387 From Sting and Die “Axe from the interior corpse”
400 From Life in a Common Gun “And on the clock, a pair or horns”
419 From I advance with a Loaded Rose “The year beyond where the trees web like green spiders”
451 Uncollected poems – “Fire engines howl like red beasts in the zoo”
480 “Hallowe’en poem”
540 “449 North Woodland road”
563 “Lost and Found” – For Henry Miller
619 “the rain of the young bells”
643 Tape ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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