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(University at Buffalo)?]\",\"notes\":\"This location is not confirmed\",\"address\":\"Buffalo, NY 14260, United States\",\"latitude\":\"42.9533\",\"longitude\":\"-78.8181\"}]"],"Address":["Vancouver, BC, Canada ","Buffalo, NY 14260, United States"],"Venue":["[Buffalo – S.U.N.Y. (University at Buffalo)?]"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia","Buffalo, New York"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tWater sounds – to 028 See “Letter 14,” Brian Fawcett, 5 Books of a North Manual\n\t\t028\tJack Spicer reading “Two poems for the nation” from Book of Magazine Verse\n\t\t\t1.\t“Pieces of the past…”\n\t\t038\t2.\t“These big trucks drive and in each one…”\n\t\t047\tSix poems for Poetry Chicago: 1. “Lemon tree very pretty…”\n\t\t056\t3.\t“Pieces of the past…” *(Spicer explains repetition of this poem)  \n\t\t285\tEnds in midst of “Seven Poems for the Vancouver Festival”, after 3.  “Nothing but the last sun falling in the last oily water by the docks.”\n\t\t286\tSound of water to 319\n\t\t320\tCharles Olson in middle of reading (at Buffalo?): “…They’re all written in what I call fivers (fibres)… The third one is called Capt. Christopher Levitt of York”\n\t\t363\t“7 years and you cld carry cinders in yr hand (Max 3)”\n\t\t379\t“…I’d like finally to end with the spirit of the world…”  (Reads from “The Song of Ulikumi”)\n\t\t450\tQuestions and remarks between audience and Olson\n\t\t518\tConversation breaks off…\n\t\t519\tOlson, reading, “Mellow and enclosed, both the local and the past…” \n\t\t530\tMoves back to discourse: “so I’m really suggesting how much this poem, which was written ’59, is very loaded again…”\n\t\t541\tReads “Astride the Cabot fault”\n\t\t569\t“What do you mean about the diorite stone lopped off at the left shoulder?”  (Question from audience)\n\t\t576\tSpeaks of Dan McLeod: “He showed me a thing in Vancouver I had never realized, that there’s a split in the Atlantic Ocean, a fault, which runs just where all my own intention has been.  Nor ‘east, and that it runs right through Gloucester…”\n\t\t597\t“That which exists through itself is called meaning…”\n\t\t609\t“I was very lucky once to have what poets call visions”\n\t\t630\tSpeaks of “the creature which the poem calls the diorite stone”\n\t\t661\tSound increases in volume rapidly\n\t\t670\t“The stone is the truest condition of creation.”\n\t\t692\t“The only interest of a spiritual exercise is production.”\n\t\t725\tReads “A little story about the condition of … two angels.”\n\t\t760\tSpeaks of the ‘double’.\n\t\t767\t“I want to end by reading a poem I read in front of Ezra Pound two weeks ago in honor of him – and it fell dead.”\n\t\t785\t“the Wall/to arise from the River, the Diorite Stone to be lopped off the Left Shoulder.”  (from “Astride/the Cabot/fault”)\n\t\t809\t“that there is no world except that we are the pictures of it…”\n\t\t826\t“the overt spiritual exercise of initiation in initiated in us… for having been born”\n\t\t835\tSound ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer and Charles Olson Side 1: Sound of Water 2:30 Reading by Jack Spicer 20 More Water 2:30 Lecture by Charles Olson 3:30 Side 2: Olson continued, but incomplete 27:37 Dolby B\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"The first part of this tape duplicates J.S. reading The Book of Magazine Verse; see Tape #96 side 1 & 2 for better copy\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554725253124,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.119Z","score":5.04614}]