St. Mark's Poetry Project: Edith Jarolim lecture on editing Paul Blackburn in New York City, 1983 #601

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:
5873
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:
St. Mark's Poetry Project: Edith Jarolim lecture on editing Paul Blackburn in New York City, 1983 #601
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)

CREATORS

Name:
Jarolim, Edith
URL:
https://viaf.org/viaf/53095842/
Name:
Blackburn, Paul
Dates:
1926-1971
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/29555679

CONTRIBUTORS

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:
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
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:
T00:47:04
Size:
50.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:47:05
Size:
48.5 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files

Dates

Date:
1983
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card

LOCATION

Address:
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY
Venue:
St. Mark's Church
Latitude:
40.7303
Longitude:
-73.98727
URL:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/241844932

CONTENT

Contents:
Side Track No. Comments One 000 001 Introduction *”Let Them Quarry Cleanly” – title of lecture *Background on Edith [Jerolin’s] academic career to date 018 Lecture begins 021 Discusses Blackburn’s work on the Poetry 026 Discussion of Blackburn’s life *Reading from a grant application Blackburn wrote in mid-60’s *Continues from there onwards 050 Blackburn’s influence on fellow poets *He was an angel 066 His work, his “good ear” 072 Blackburn’s theory [or rather lack of] 078 “He wrote very little criticism” *Letter to Robert Creeley is read aloud 091 His work *Minor works *Major works 103 [Jerolin] on editing Blackburn’s complete work *Changes in editing and publishing *Posthumous legacy and methodology 128 The title of the lecture explained 144 Come genres of Blackburn’s poetry 166 Blackburn’s attitude toward his text *Revision, reproduction, etc. 185 Editing and publishing techniques in the later 20th century *Blackburn’s poems were to be found in many different places and forms 295 *The small, many temporary magazines in which Blackburn’s poems appeared, sometimes under alias 348 The many versions of Blackburn’s poems 409 *His lack of sequenal patterns 523 [Jerolin’s] trouble, organizing a chronology *Compare typeface of letters – which were dated – and of poems 556 Lecture suddenly ends in mid-sentence 613 Side 1 ends Two 000 027 Lecture begins where it left off *Comparing typefaces 038 Dating the poems in a biographical sense *Events in his life, events of a poem *Letters and the addresses on them 058 Dating the love poems 090 Blackburn and Creeley 111 Conclusion, reiterating the themes of the lecture 116 [Jerolin] consents to a Question and Answer Session 119 *First question inaudible 124 *Question on method of establishing dates in relation to the typewriter Blackburn may have been using 128 *Third question inaudible – something to do with drafts 139 *Fourth question on did [Jerolin] “grow tired or grow to like Blackburn’s poems more” as she worked on the editing process 149 *Fifth question: “Did he publish the same poem several times?” 161 *Sixth question, basically inaudible, something to do with image poetry and the Black Mountain poets 175 *Seventh question, again basically inaudible, but something to do with revision methods 189 *Eighth question on the casual qualities of Blackburn’s poems 205 *Follow-up question, mainly inaudible 222 *Ninth question: “Did Blackburn keep a large number of the magazines in which his work was published?” 235 *Follow-up question on the ‘orbitary’ nature of small magazine publishing 255 *Discussion by [Jerolin] on poems that Blackburn did not intend for publishing *Editorial principle 278 *Tenth question, what to include, what not to 292 *Eleventh question and [Jerolin’s] reply are basically inaudible 319 Question and Answer Session ends 320 Concluding remarks, announcements on forthcoming lectures at the Poetry Project 334 People file out 617 Side two ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting

NOTES

Type:
General
Note:
A few minutes of silence at beginning of each side of the tape

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