CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6056
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:
UBC Poetry Festival: Robert Duncan at the Vancouver Poetry conference on August 5, 1963 #103b
Title Source:
J-card and inventory
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Duncan, Robert
Dates:
1919-1988
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
Notes:
In the inventory it states that he is a Donor and we are not sure what it means
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
T01:17:22
Extent:
1/8 inch
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Very 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:
T00:46:20
Size:
33.6 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:47:00
Size:
33.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1963-08-05
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
Date:
1963-07-26
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Inventory
Date:
1963-07-25
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Inventory
LOCATION
Address:
6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Venue:
UBC
Latitude:
49.2586
Longitude:
-123.2452
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
Two A 000 Robert Duncan reading his poems; announces reading will be from Opening of the Field (New York : Grove Press, 1960) & from “work written since 1960 that hasn’t been printed” (most of which appears in Roots & Branches (New York : Scribner’s, 1964)
006 “The Question.” (Opening of the Field, p. 54)
033 “Three sections from a long continuous work called Structure of Rime… it’s literally continuous, it has no terminous [sic] point at all… I’m going to read now, IX X and XI (O F 71, 72, 73)”
038 “The Structure of Rime IX”
056 “The Structure of Rime X” (“… where thi* has the sound of tree and thA has the sound of nut”)
075 “The Structure of Rime XI”
093 “Ingmar Bergman’s SEVENTH SEAL (O F 93)”
120 “Now I’m going to read a long poem, ‘Apprehensions,’ and then later, a sequence of Romantic odes…”
131 “Apprehensions 1” (Roots and Branches, 30)
160 “Apprehensions 2. The Directive” (R&B 32)
197 “Apprehensions 3” (R&B, 35)
248 “Apprehensions 4. (Structure of Rime XIV): (R&B, 39)
267 “Apprehensions 5. (First Poem)” (R&B, 39-40)
281 “Apprehensions 5. (Second Poem)” (R&B, 40-42)
309 “Apprehensions 5. (Close)” (R&B, 42-43. Duncan does not read the line “the orders of the stars and of words;” as printed, p. 43)
339 “Come, Let Me Free Myself” (R&B, 55)
356 “Risk” (R&B, 56)
420 “Now I want to read a later series of the Structure of Rime…”
424 “The Structure of Rime XVI” (R&B,
438 “The Structure of Rime XVII” (R&B, 65-66. Reads “Come, my love” before stanza beginning “Desire paces Eternity…”)
462 “The Structure of Rime XVIII” (R&B, 67)
485 (Tells story of letter from editor of mag. Set, for which D. wrote the following poem:
continues:
Side Track No. Comments
Two 495 “Osiris and Set” (R&B, 67)
555 “Two Presentations” (from Windings, R&B, 73-76)
649 Sings “A Song of the Old Order.” (O F, 52-53)
695 “This is a song from a different kind of wife, from a Halloween Masque…”
708 Sings “A Country Wife’s Song” (from A Play with Masques, R&B, 94-97)
747 “This is a set of romantic hymns that owes something to Mike McClure”
769 A Set of Romantic Hymns, R&B, 106-115.
917 “I’ll read four sonnets…”
950 “Sonnet 1” (R&B, 122)
965 “Sonnet 2” (R&B, 123)
983 “Sonnet 3 / from Dante’s Sixth Sonnet” (R&B, 124)
1004 “Sonnet 4 (“He’s given me his thee to keep…”) (in Bending the Bow, New York : New Directions, 1968, 3)
1052 Sings again “A Country Wife’s Song.”
1105 “A little, tidy, little old closing…”
1115 “Poem Beginning with a line by Pindar,” (O F, 62-69)
1371 (Recorded at another time (?))” The Continent,” (R&B, 172-176.)
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Very poor sound
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Robert Duncan at the Vancouver Poetry conference August 5, 1963 Side 1 46:20 Side 2 46:02 Dolby B
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