CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5789
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:
George Bowering English 414 Lecture 21 at SFU on November 19, 1973 #680
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
On J-card: English 414 Lecture 21 Nov. 19, 1973; W. C. Williams: Paterson III
Language:
English
Production Context:
Classroom recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:58
Size:
35.2 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:57
Size:
34.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1973-11-19
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2784
Longitude:
-122.9231
CONTENT
Contents:
Side
Track
No.
Comments
One
0000
0002
Bowering makes light of the fact that he is early for lecture
0019
Paterson, Book III is, as far as Bowering is concerned, the best in terms of verse, in terms of art, in the Paterson series
0024
Bowering recaps his discussion on beauty and the significance of the fire, the flood and the cyclone
0040
Reference is made to Shelley’s concept of the flame
0105
Flame and fire are the most common images for those things which both destroy and preserve. Water also has this quality
0122
Williams said, “The province of the poem is the world. When the sun rises, it rises in the poem and when it sets, darkness comes down and the poem is dark”. That is to say that the poem is not a description of the world, the poem is a world – its own world
0144
Bowering relates the history of Capt. Vancouver’s voyage up the Northwest Cost
0165
The tightrope passage is discussed
0204
The poetics of wind, the “Breath of poetry” is discussed
0254
Williams’s attitude about the ‘doom’ of the city is looked at. Why does the puritan fear fire?
0270
The events of the Apocalypse are discussed in light of Paterson
0287
“Rather than fear the flames”, notes Bowering, “or rather than be gloomy, N.F. Paterson, the poet, hears the laughter all the way through it”
0315
The central image in Book III is the old bottle mauled by the fire. In-depth discussion follows
0399
Another image of the accidental is discussed
0454
More interpenetration and marriage images are given mention
0493
“Those books (in the Library)”, says Bowering, “that record of the confrontation with beauty are not the inspiration of the imagination in action at the moment”. What we get is what the guy wrote about that in most cases. How can we get past this conundrum? Asks Williams.
0535
“In Part III of Book III we get the flood”, states Bowering
0547
While the fire changes and form and makes beauty, the flood piles up the debris – it is the past, piling up like property
0645
The wonder of the tin roof is mentioned, with reference to the apocalyptic
0703
Tape ends abruptly in mid-sentence
Two
Side Two is blank
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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