CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
7123
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Warren Tallman Fonds
Source Collection ID:
MsC 26
Source Collection Description:
Warren Tallman (7 November 1921 - 1 July 1994) was an American-born poetry professor who inspired the Canadian Tish movement and influenced the mid-20th century poetry scene in Canada. Born in Seattle attended the University of California, Berkeley on the G.I. Bill. There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951. In 1956, the Tallmans accepted teaching jobs in the English department at the University of British Columbia, where they helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching papers, personal and financial records, material pertaining to the Vancouver Poetry Centre, photographs, audiotapes, ephemera, etc.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Re-recordings from two albums by the Dial-A-Poem Poets, Totally Corrupt (1976) and Sugar, Alcohol & Meat (1980)
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Sanders, Ed
Dates:
1939-
Name:
Bukowski, Charles
Dates:
1920-1994
Role:
Reader
Name:
Waldman, Anne
Dates:
1945-
Role:
Reader
Name:
Baraka, Amiri
Dates:
1934-2014
Role:
Reader
Name:
Higgins, Erica
Role:
Speaker
Name:
Kesey, Ken
Role:
Reader
Name:
Mac Low, Jackson
Dates:
1922-2004
Role:
Reader
Name:
Amirkhanian, Charles
Dates:
1945-
Role:
Performer
Name:
Barg, Barbara
Role:
Reader
Name:
Sublette, Ned
Role:
Reader
Name:
Acker, Kathy
Role:
Reader
Name:
McCaffery, Steve
Dates:
1947-
Role:
Reader
Name:
Olson, Charles
Dates:
1910-1970
Role:
Reader
Name:
Weatherly, Tom
Role:
Reader
Name:
Merwin, W. S.
Dates:
1927-2019
Role:
Reader
Name:
Owen, Maureen
Dates:
1943-
Role:
Reader
Name:
Rothenburg, Jerome
Role:
Reader
Name:
Orlovsky, Peter
Dates:
1933-2010
Role:
Reader
Name:
Bukowski, Charles
Dates:
1920-1994
Role:
Reader
Name:
Burroughs, William Seward
Dates:
1914-1997
Role:
Reader
Name:
Plath, Sylvia
Role:
Reader
Name:
Giorno, John
Dates:
1936-2019
Role:
Reader
Name:
McLure, Michael
Dates:
1959-
Role:
Reader
Name:
McLure, Michael
Dates:
1959-
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Sound Quality:
Good
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:
T00:47:52
Size:
51.2 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:48:23
Size:
54.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1990-03-09
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
The content does not correspond to what's written on the j-card regarding Adeena Karasick. The tape's adhesive label could indicate Kedrick James is the recorder. Sides A and B represent a true mix tape in that few of the tracks or poets appear as they are arranged on the actual LPs; the re-recorder also works back and forth across both albums. Side A contains performances by Ed Sanders, Charles Bukowski, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, Erica Higgins, Ken Kesey, Jackson Mac Low, Charles Amirkhanian, Barbara Barg, Ned Sublette, Kathy Acker, Steve McCaffery, and Gary Snyder, ending at 47:13.
Side B includes readings by Tom Weatherly, Charles Olson, W.S. Merwin, Maureen Owen, Jerome Rothenburg, Peter Orlovsky, Charles Bukowski, Ed Dorn, William S. Burroughs, Sylvia Plath, John Giorno, and Michael McLure and ends at 47:34.