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It also includes some student papers in bound volumes and 63 sound recordings (80 audio reels) mainly composed of poetry readings (see the Concordia SpokenWeb project which uses this material) but also a few lectures given at SGWU. There are also loose typed sheets describing some of the SGWU poetry readings."],"collection_source_collection_id":["I086"],"persistent_url":["http://archives.concordia.ca/I086"],"item_title":[" David Bromige at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 6 November 1970"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["\"DAVID BROMIGE recorded November 6, 1970 3.75 ips, on 1. mil tape 1/2 track\" written on sticker on the back of the tape box.\"RT 550\" written on sticker on the front of the tape box. \"DAVID BROMIGE I086-11-007\" written on the spine of the tape box. \"DAVID BROMIGE\" and \"RT 550\" also written on stickers on the reel."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_subseries_title":["Poetry 5"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Bromige, David"],"creator_names_search":["Bromige, David"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/7436750\",\"name\":\"Bromige, David\",\"dates\":\"1933-2009\",\"notes\":\"David Bromige was born in London, England, on October 22, 1933. He spent most of his childhood in England, surviving the German blitzkrieg during World War II. Bromige then left for Canada, to pursue an undergraduate degree in English from the University of British Columbia. There he met George Bowering and the Tish group of poets, and worked as an editor for the UBC newspaper. In 1962, he graduated and was offered a scholarship to complete his Master’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He completed both his M.A. (1964) and his Ph.D. (1970), when he began teaching at the Sonoma State University in 1970, a position he held until his retirement 23 years later. His first publication was The Gathering (Sumbooks, 1965), which was followed by The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968), Please, Like Me (Black Sparrow Press, 1968) and Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971). Bromige was involved in the San Francisco poetry renaissance of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. He then published Birds of the West (Coach House Press, 1973), Ten Years in the Making: Selected Poems, Songs & Stories, 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973), Three Stories (Black Sparrow Press, 1973), Out of my Hands (Black Sparrow Press, 1974) and Tight Corners & What’s Around Them: Prose & Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 1974). Bromige has published over forty volumes of prose and poetry, including Living in Advance (Open Ready Press, 1976), My Poetry (The Figures press, 1980), Desire: Selected Poems 1963-1987 (Black Sparrow Press, 1988) which won a Western States Arts Federation award, Piccolo Mondo (Coach House Press Books, 1998) with Angela and George Bowering and Michael Matthews, As in T, As in Tether (Chax Press, 2002), Ten Poems from Clearings in the Throat (dPress, 2005) and his last collection, with Richard Denner, Spade (dPress, 2006). 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Add a few new poems. It's a book with poems that are not, some poems that are not, in any sense in theory, or are less important than others, but it moves from one tangle of threads to the next, so it moves in various stages or groups, but I'll read at least one poem from each group, so I think that'll make a story. This is the first poem in the book, and this is the presentation that decided me on the book. What the book, in a way, pushes against.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:01:02\nReads \"In His Image\" [published later in Threads].\n\nDavid Bromige\n00:02:01\nReads \"After the Engraving\" [published later in Threads].\n\nDavid Bromige\n00:03:07\nAnd I got this take, this poem was printed in a magazine that George Bowering [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280] edits, Imago, Number 13, I think.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:03:21\nReads \"First Love\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:07:08\nSee, what I was working there was both the delightful self-indulgence of being able to tell that story over to myself after so many years, but, what I had coming out in the poem before, the one about the light elves who danced the dark elves out into the light in order to petrify them, as an Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic conception, which has a lot to do with our idea of what a poem is or what a work of art is. And so then I had this matter of the one you love coming to you and enabling you to be both light and dark elf to yourself, so that the two of you...whose particular form had never been, without her, it was that cultural attachment to particular forms, also, that I was hoping to tell the story, part of the story of, again, there. Okay, here's “Psychoanalysis”.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:08:23\nReads “Psychoanalysis” [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:08:32\nReads \"You Too\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:08:52\nReads \"Why I Went There\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:10:54\nReads \"I Can't Read, & Here's a Book\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:12:27\nAnd so, yeah, and then that shifts into this prose piece, \"They Want\".\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:12:33\nReads \"They Want\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:14:11\nThis one came out of the same meeting.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:14:14\nReads \"I can See\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:14:31\nReads \"Only Fair\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:14:59\nReads \"Example” [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:15:11\nYeah, this would seem to be very useful here. \"Choosing the Event\". This came out of the troubles, the people's park troubles in Berkeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168756]. Whenever it was, I can't remember now, the year before last, I guess.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:15:34\nReads \"Choosing the Event\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:17:18\nReads \"Logical Conclusions\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:17:47\nI still don't know who it was. I figure if I keep reading it, sooner or later someone's going to break. But it's not very likely here. \"An Invention\".\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:18:07\nReads \"An Invention\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:18:49\nReads \"Fond\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:19:45\nReads \"So\" [published later in Threads].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:22:19\nAnd so I want to read a poem from my first book. It was written in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639], of Vancouver. Well, I'm not a...particular landscapes don't often come into my poetry but here all kinds of images came in, from Hampstead Heath [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1570958], near where I spent my childhood, and also of Vancouver, and this poem also was published in TISH [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384384], a publication from those Vancouver days.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:22:52\nReads \"We Could Get a Drink\" from The Gathering.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:24:57\nI'll read a few poems now from the book between--that was from a book called The Gathering. This is from The Ends of the Earth. And these, in their literal presence, these woods were the woods behind Deep Cove [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5250114], where I was living in 1964, just up from Vancouver.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:25:24\nReads \"In Deep Woods\" from The Ends of the Earth.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:26:17\nThis goes back to back with that, I guess. \n \nDavid Bromige\n00:26:20\nReads \"Just Think\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:26:57\nReads \"A Defect\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:27:32\nReads \"Taking Heart\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:28:11\nReads \"The Faster\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:28:45\nReads \"Why Not\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:29:25\nReads \"A Call\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:30:35\nThis is a...it's my own attempt to write a fairy story. And I just let come into it all the elements that I knew from various fairy stories, narrative tricks and devices and so forth, and tried to have my fun from them, but I didn't get away with it. They took me, even though I held off, as well as I could.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:31:03\nReads \"A Final Mission\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nAudience\n00:38:04\nApplause.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:38:11\nThat's the closest, I guess, to a political poem I've ever written. [Audience laughter]. So I want a bit to break that mood, because I can't do anything more with that mood.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:38:23\nReads \"A Kind Numbness\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:39:19\nI like that very much, that notion of the bargain by which we civilized beings live, it comes through for me very strongly there, but also, I mean when the sun gets up the flies get up, but also that you can focus on one or the other. Let's see how I'm doing for time. Okay, I'll read...I sent the manuscript of Threads off to the publisher about two months ago, and these are the poems I've written since then.\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:40:06\nReads \"Dear Night\".\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:42:29\nReads \"The Spell\" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].\n\nDavid Bromige\n00:44:46\nReads \"Tom Thumb: A Relation on a Measure\".\n \nDavid Bromige\n00:48:23\nReads \"A Rime\" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].\n \nUnknown\n00:48:26\n[Cut or edit made in tape; poem title is repeated]. \n \nDavid Bromige\n00:50:26\nReads \"From my Mother\".\n \nEND\n00:52:18\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information: \\n\\nIn 1970, Bromige completed his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and began teaching at Sonoma State University the same year. He was working on his book Threads which was published in 1971.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:\\n\\nDavid Bromige completed an undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, where he met George Bowering (a Reading Series Committee member).\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript by Rachel Kyne\\n\\nOriginal print catalogue, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Ali Barillaro\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"http://bromige.wordpress.com/memories-thoughts-reflections/\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. “Stories”. Comment made on the Remembering David website. Posted June 3, 2009. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/gathering-poems/oclc/869019454&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bromige, David. The Gathering. Buffalo: Sunbooks, 1965. \\n\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/threads/oclc/869019738&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bromige, David. Threads. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/ends-of-the-earth/oclc/869019696&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bromige, David. The Ends of the Earth. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/ten-years-in-the-making-selected-poems-songs-stories-1961-1970/oclc/496167582&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bromige David. Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970. Vancouver: Community Press, 1973. \"},{\"url\":\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/16/BAU3187NM6.DTL\",\"citation\":\"Jones, Carolyn. “Poet, teacher David Bromige dies”. The San Francisco Chronicle. 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Add a few new poems. It's a book with poems that are not, some poems that are not, in any sense in theory, or are less important than others, but it moves from one tangle of threads to the next, so it moves in various stages or groups, but I'll read at least one poem from each group, so I think that'll make a story. This is the first poem in the book, and this is the presentation that decided me on the book. 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And so then I had this matter of the one you love coming to you and enabling you to be both light and dark elf to yourself, so that the two of you...whose particular form had never been, without her, it was that cultural attachment to particular forms, also, that I was hoping to tell the story, part of the story of, again, there. Okay, here's “Psychoanalysis”.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:08:23\\nReads “Psychoanalysis” [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:08:32\\nReads \\\"You Too\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:08:52\\nReads \\\"Why I Went There\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:10:54\\nReads \\\"I Can't Read, & Here's a Book\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:12:27\\nAnd so, yeah, and then that shifts into this prose piece, \\\"They Want\\\".\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:12:33\\nReads \\\"They Want\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:14:11\\nThis one came out of the same meeting.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:14:14\\nReads \\\"I can See\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:14:31\\nReads \\\"Only Fair\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:14:59\\nReads \\\"Example” [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:15:11\\nYeah, this would seem to be very useful here. \\\"Choosing the Event\\\". This came out of the troubles, the people's park troubles in Berkeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168756]. Whenever it was, I can't remember now, the year before last, I guess.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:15:34\\nReads \\\"Choosing the Event\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:17:18\\nReads \\\"Logical Conclusions\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:17:47\\nI still don't know who it was. I figure if I keep reading it, sooner or later someone's going to break. But it's not very likely here. \\\"An Invention\\\".\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:18:07\\nReads \\\"An Invention\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:18:49\\nReads \\\"Fond\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:19:45\\nReads \\\"So\\\" [published later in Threads].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:22:19\\nAnd so I want to read a poem from my first book. It was written in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639], of Vancouver. Well, I'm not a...particular landscapes don't often come into my poetry but here all kinds of images came in, from Hampstead Heath [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1570958], near where I spent my childhood, and also of Vancouver, and this poem also was published in TISH [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384384], a publication from those Vancouver days.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:22:52\\nReads \\\"We Could Get a Drink\\\" from The Gathering.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:24:57\\nI'll read a few poems now from the book between--that was from a book called The Gathering. This is from The Ends of the Earth. And these, in their literal presence, these woods were the woods behind Deep Cove [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5250114], where I was living in 1964, just up from Vancouver.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:25:24\\nReads \\\"In Deep Woods\\\" from The Ends of the Earth.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:26:17\\nThis goes back to back with that, I guess. \\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:26:20\\nReads \\\"Just Think\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:26:57\\nReads \\\"A Defect\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:27:32\\nReads \\\"Taking Heart\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:28:11\\nReads \\\"The Faster\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:28:45\\nReads \\\"Why Not\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:29:25\\nReads \\\"A Call\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:30:35\\nThis is a...it's my own attempt to write a fairy story. And I just let come into it all the elements that I knew from various fairy stories, narrative tricks and devices and so forth, and tried to have my fun from them, but I didn't get away with it. They took me, even though I held off, as well as I could.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:31:03\\nReads \\\"A Final Mission\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:38:04\\nApplause.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:38:11\\nThat's the closest, I guess, to a political poem I've ever written. [Audience laughter]. So I want a bit to break that mood, because I can't do anything more with that mood.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:38:23\\nReads \\\"A Kind Numbness\\\" [from The Ends of the Earth].\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:39:19\\nI like that very much, that notion of the bargain by which we civilized beings live, it comes through for me very strongly there, but also, I mean when the sun gets up the flies get up, but also that you can focus on one or the other. Let's see how I'm doing for time. Okay, I'll read...I sent the manuscript of Threads off to the publisher about two months ago, and these are the poems I've written since then.\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:40:06\\nReads \\\"Dear Night\\\".\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:42:29\\nReads \\\"The Spell\\\" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].\\n\\nDavid Bromige\\n00:44:46\\nReads \\\"Tom Thumb: A Relation on a Measure\\\".\\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:48:23\\nReads \\\"A Rime\\\" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:48:26\\n[Cut or edit made in tape; poem title is repeated]. \\n \\nDavid Bromige\\n00:50:26\\nReads \\\"From my Mother\\\".\\n \\nEND\\n00:52:18\\n\",\"notes\":\"David Bromige reads from The Gathering (Sunbooks, 1965) and The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968), as well as poems published soon after in Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971), and later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973).\\n\\n00:00- Recording starts mid-sentence, David Bromige introduces reading and “In His Image”. [INDEX: Threads, The Ends of the Earth, new poems, reading as a story, first poem in the book, presentation; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n01:02- Reads “In His Image”. [INDEX: death, grave, sight, sky, camera, eye, voice, water]\\n02:01- Reads “After the Engraving, for Tom Clark.  [INDEX: chisel, love, evil, luck,   fortune, sculpture, craft, amulet, sky, stone; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n03:07- Introduces “First Love”. [INDEX: printed in George Bowering’s Imago number 13; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n03:21- Reads “First Love”. [INDEX: couple, unity, work, city, anger, fortune, north, village, love, joy, grandparents, wave, sea, sex, music, dance, boat, Chicago, parting, loss, kiss.]\\n07:08- Explains “First Love”, introduces “Psychoanalysis”. [INDEX: self-indulgence, telling story, light elves, dark elves, Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, idea of what a poem or work of art is, love, cultural attachment to particular forms, psychoanalysis; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n08:23- Reads “Psychoanalysis”. [INDEX: sex, word, psychoanalysis, memory.]\\n08:32- Reads “You Too”. [INDEX: orders, will, uniform; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n08:52- Reads “Why I Went There”. [INDEX: knowledge, travel, audience, memory, Barry, editor, party, night, meeting, love, son, job, resentment, heavy, alone, nightmare; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]\\n10:54- Reads “I Can’t Read & Here’s a Book” [INDEX: boy, son, book, reading, Hans Christian Anderson, fairy tale, alone, solitude, brain; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n12:27- Introduces “They Want”. [INDEX:prose piece; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n12:33- Reads “They Want” [INDEX: identity, student, faculty, meeting, form, evaluation, pain, necessity, structure, rhyme.]\\n14:11- Introduces “I Can See”. [INDEX: poem from same meeting as “They Want”; from    Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]\\n14:14- Reads “I Can See”. [INDEX: argument, meeting, intelligence]\\n14:31- Reads “Only Fair”. [INDEX: money, justice, banana; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]\\n14:59- Reads “Example”. [INDEX: competition; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n15:11- Introduces “Choosing the Event”. [INDEX: people’s ‘park troubles’ in Berkeley; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n15:34- Reads “Choosing the Event”. [INDEX: loss, luck, D-Day, suffering, forgetting, memory, feeling, interpreter, speaking, freedom, San Fernando, death.]\\n17:18- Reads “Logical Conclusions”.  [INDEX: friend, meeting, couple, door, welcome, trust; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]\\n17:47- Explains “Logical Conclusions”. [INDEX: figuring out who the subject of the poem is.]\\n18:07- Reads “An Invention”. [INDEX:  moon, zodiac, Virgo, date, birth, fate, accident,     determination, dread, sign; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]   \\n18:49- Reads “Fond”. [INDEX: love, failure, couple, sleep, night, kitchen, house; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]\\n19:45- Reads “So”. [INDEX: animal, kitten, eye, sight, vowel, consonant, language, word, loss, mistake, voice, iamb, writing, happiness, lust, joy, death, misery, resentment, cat; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]\\n22:19- Introduces “We Could Get a Drink”. [INDEX: first book, written in Vancouver, about Vancouver, Hampstead Heath, childhood, published in Tish from; The Gathering \\t(Sunbooks, 1965).]\\n22:52- Reads “We Could Get a Drink”. [INDEX: sun, memory, remembrance, Hampstead Heath, morning, tree, couple, love, Vancouver, place, shadow, camera, girl, starve, news, soldier, bomb, birch, drink.]\\n24: 57- Introduces “In Deep Woods”. [INDEX: previous poems from The Gathering, latter poems from The Ends of the Earth, literal presence, Deep Cove, 1964, living in    Vancouver; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]\\n25:24- Reads “In Deep Woods”. [INDEX: place, Vancouver, Deep Cove, fish, salmon, bear, house, forest, animal.]\\n26:17- Introduces “Just Think”. [INDEX: from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]\\n26:20- Reads “Just Think”. [INDEX: reality, hypothesis, family, children, theatre]\\n26:57- Reads \\\"A Defect\\\". [INDEX:  doctor, defect, body, boy, meaning; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]\\n27:32- Reads \\\"Taking Heart\\\" [INDEX: mouth, trust, doubt, body, ocean, love, couple, loss, lake, river; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]\\n28:11- Reads \\\"The Faster\\\" [INDEX: night, time, play, statue, studio, representation; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]\\n28:45- Reads \\\"Why Not\\\" [INDEX: hypothetical, clothes, reflection, wind, dawn, window, sky, sun; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]\\n29:25- Reads “A Call”. [INDEX: city, door, solitude, alone, street, sleep, room, silence, sight, mouth; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]\\n30:35- Introduces “A Final Mission”. [INDEX: fairy story, elements of fairy stories, narrative tricks and devices, fun; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]    \\n31:03- Reads “A Final Mission”.  [INDEX: forest, place, fairy tale, wood, ownership, travel, friend, story, woman, naked, home, tree, listening, master, flower, nature, bridge, water, music, heart, sleep, dream, couple, semen, sex, flight, sight, body, star.]\\n38:11- Talks about mood of the reading. [INDEX: political poem, mood of reading and poems.]\\n38:23- Reads “A Kind Numbness”. [INDEX:  morning, sleep, cold, animal, horse, skin, fly, sun; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]\\n39:19- Explains “A Kind Numbness”, introduces new poems. [INDEX: bargain, civilization, sun, flies, manuscript of Threads sent off two months previous, poems written since then.]\\n40:06- Reads “Dear Night”. [INDEX: night, window, reflection, village, story, alone, woman, city, body, perception, praise, fate, figure of speech, language, absence, lover, love, blindness, shame, drinking, song; unknown source.]\\n42:29- Reads “The Spell”.  [INDEX: dark, danger, light, beauty, safety, pun, antonym, city, man, time, story, stone, word, gem, light; published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973).]\\n44:46- Reads “Tom Thumb: a Relation on a Measure”. [INDEX: fairy tale, Tom Thumb, size, invisible, sight, child, soul, unique, island, Scotland, friend, betrayal, measure, memory, remembrance, house; unknown source.]\\n48: 23- Reads “A Rime”. [INDEX: nature, animal, bird, Great Horned Owl, sound, sight,       night, book, knowledge, voice, morning, silence, house, fire, cold; published later in Ten       Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973)]\\n48:26- Cut/Edit in tape; Bromige reading poem's title is repeated. \\n50:26- Reads “From My Mother”. 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