[{"id":"5372","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer discussion conclusion on serial poems in Vancouver on June 15, 1965 part 2 of 2 #752"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack \",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1242/Reading in BC_MsC199_752.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:38:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"752-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:45\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"44.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"752-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:47\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"44.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1852574\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Vancouver, BC, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.2528\",\"longitude\":\"-123.1145\"}]"],"Address":["Vancouver, BC, Canada"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Jack Spicer: serial poems, The Holy Grail Vancouver BC, June 15, 1965\\npart II\\nside 1: 45:00\\nside 2: 43:10\\n#752\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"the length of the digital file's side 1 is T00:46:45 and side 2 is T00:42:47, but the performance only takes 45 minute on side 1 and 43:10 on side 2 and the rest of audio is empt\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553066405888,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.525Z","contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t011\tQuestion regarding the distinctions in Sir Galahad between foolish and fool-ish\n\t\t012\tSpicer explains the fool as a kind of a holy thing as well as something that is just stupid\n\t\t048\tQ: What role do the recurring themes play in your own thought as you go along, like the forest, the boat, the Grail and the fool?\n\t\t030\tSpicer says he tries not to think about them as they recur.  He elaborates on the ocean and the non-ocean\n\t\t080\tQuestioner says he is interested in a particular mental action that keeps Spicer ignorant of what is in his mind\n\t\t087\tSpicer says you learn how not to trust yourself so much your mind becomes blank on it.  Discussion ensues on this line of question regarding mental processes leading to Spicer’s ideas on the character of Merlin\n\t\t159\tQ: How are purity and Long Island Sound equated?\n\t\t160\tSpicer says that to identify yourself with the landscape is as stupid as identifying the Grail with purity – lengthy discussion of this idea\n\t\t209\tQ: What’s the difference between the grail in your serial poem and the moth in Robin’s serial poem?\n\t\t215\tSpicer replies that if the question had been put in threes, the grail, the moth, and the hunting of the snark, and the difference between them, then they are all collective things to be searched for.  Robin’s was immediate appearance, Spicer’s was, through poetics, Gawain’s idea of the empty cup, the full cup.  For Lewis Carroll, the snark is something that turns into a “boojum”\n\t\t243\tQuestion about Edwin Muir’s poems being similar to Jack Spicer’s (from Dorothy Livesay)\n\t\t266\tQ: How did the Australians get into the poem?\n\t\t270\tSpicer gives anecdote of Australian soldiers given defense of Greece by the British who moved out during the invasion by the Germans.  Ninety percent were killed while the British sustained few casualties\n\t\t299\tQ: Since that vessel the Grail is elusive and a mystery, is there a process on your part of what you were doing, with what the serial poem is not?  Is there a “not” process that works, a not naming it?\n\t\t307\tSpicer says that when he knew it was a grail poem, he didn’t make any effort to find it because he knew he wouldn’t find it himself.  He elaborates on this process\n\t\t327\tComment by audience member that he had thought of the poem as a poetics poem\n\t\t328\tSpicer thinks the poem goes into more of the human condition in relation to the divine taking the human.  Spicer digresses into an anecdote about Glastonbury, south of Chester (where Arthur is supposed to be buried) and an 18th century machine that could write poetry\n\t\t360\tA question about whether the forest Spicer tries to get through in his writing is the same forest that Robin Blaser talks about… the holy forest\n\t\t363\tSpicer says Blaser’s holy forest is a different forest from the grail forest, Spicer’s forest being closer to Dante’s, the human condition\n\t\t378\tQ: Doesn’t Blaser talk about getting lost in the Forest?\n\t\t380\tSpicer responds that the Forest need not be a Jungian symbol.  Further questions and answers regarding trees versus forest symbolism\n\t\t434\tA question about Spicer’s connection to Gatsby’s Long Island\n\t\t436\tSpicer says Gatsby’s Long Island is his; Gatsby’s forest is the forest of ashes\n\t\t452\tSpicer asks if the idea of the serial poem makes any sense to people\n\t\t453\tA question about the fixed order of each segment and whether Spicer changes it\n\t\t456\tSpicer says changes means the poet will be taken along his own path.  His dissatisfaction with “The book of Lancelot” lies in the fact that he is speaking through the poem\n\t\t480\tQuestioner comments that Stevens’ writings about his poetry are similar to Spicer’s; does that make him a serial; poet?\n\t\t482\tSpicer says Stevens had a map for his poetry\n\t\t503\tSpicer has become more distrustful of Stevens as people who dislike poetry become more enamored with Steven’s poetry\n\t\t514\tSpicer explains the meaning of the title “serial”; that you go from one point to another to another not really knowing where you are\n\t\t516\tGeneral discussion ensues around the choice of the word “serial”\n\t\t521\tSpicer says The Pickwick Papers in the novel term, is the only place where Dickens is completely free of a destination\n\t\t528\tSpicer on Mr. Jingle and stream of consciousness writing\n\t\t533\tQ: Does Naked Lunch relate to serial poetry?\n\t\t535\tSpicer says he doesn’t like Naked Lunch so he doesn’t think it is serial\n\t\t546\tQuestion about the flow of Spicer’s writing over nine months\n\t\t554\tSpicer discusses the writing process and answers questions on the issue of cutting, editing etc.\n\t\t570\tSpicer advises new writers to take chances and not revise; to go straight into the serial poem process\n\t\t575\tSpicer on baseball metaphor.  Spicer says he wasted much of his time on writing perfect little poems, resents this wasted time, and advises new poets to try the most complicated things and fall flat on your ass doing it\n\t\t589\tThe emphasis on craft in universities is a bunch of hogshit according to Spicer\n\t\t600\tSpicer on his nine-month writing process.  When a line comes up that is perfect, that is exactly what he wants, he stops for several hours and waits and waits\n\t\t638\tQuestioner suggests that the poem can be just a matter of chance.  Does Spicer re-read his poems?  Does he review them and then continue writing?  Isn’t a later reading of ideas from the poem just a chance association?\n\t\t653\tThe message may not be important, but you must read it again and again to find that out\n\t\t659\tSpicer says that if you’re good enough, you can act like a radio tube or a transmitter to get stuff from yourself\n\t\t665\tQuestion about Spicer’s first serial poems, The Elegies*\n\t\t669\tSpicer describes his first serial poems written over a number of years.  Discussion emerges around challenging the concept of the serial poem process, and one questioner in particular suggests that revision and input would create a more complete poem\n\t\t743\tQuestioner suggests Spicer equates passivity with unconscious skill, and uses music as an example of where a mastered skill can allow composers to create with the aid of years of practice\n\t\t762\tSpicer seems to be cut off and tape resumes at a later spot in the discussion during which Spicer counsels against revision\n\t\t787\tQuestioner asks if Spicer’s preparation is perhaps not more conscious than Spicer wants it to be, due to years of mastering the technique of poetry\n\t\t797\tSpicer says this is a conditioned idea, as in painting, that an artist has to be trained in representation before painting an abstract work\n\t\t816\tSame questioner pursues this issue with an analogy to jazz\n\t\t859\tSpicer counters argument on form by advising students to fill their minds with reading and ideas, rather than studying form\n\t\t864\tSpicer refers to San Francisco poet, Jim Alexander (“The Jack Rabbit Poem” published in J).  Alexander uses a technique of breaking words, but because he can’t spell, it is difficult to know when certain misspellings are intentional or not.  Yet mastering the language and mastering difficult poetic forms are two different things\n\t\t907\tAudience member mentions Crane’s Voyages Two, and suggests that Crane could not have written the blank verse without the openness Spicer talks about\n\t\t934\tSame questioner asks if the enjoyment of poetry isn’t in seeing someone who understands language do what he wants with it and control it because he’s practised?\n\t\t943\tSpicer argues that poetry should not be meant as a pleasure for the audience, pleasures are incidental and unrelated to the poem\n\t\t959\tDispute is settled by Spicer suggesting the disagreement lies in what a young poet should focus on\n\t\t970\tSpicer says the young poet should focus on keeping his personality out of the poem and letting something else come in\n\t\t999\tPoetry is not for pleasure.  Spicer is not sure what poetry is for, but he is trying to pass on messages through his poems.  A long debate follows among audience and Spicer on the question of pleasure in art and baseball\nTwo\t\t\tBegins: question of pleasure in art and baseball\n\t\t047\tA question begins on the poems that Spicer throws away, that are conscious poems\n\t\t059\tSpicer responds to a question about serial poetry pre-20th century\n\t\t065\tIn ruling yourself out, does this have anything to do with Eliot’s idea of impersonality and getting rid of personality?\n\t\t066\tSpicer refers to Dante and Horace as the first to know this idea, it was not a “discovery” of Eliot’s\n\t\t071\tQuestioners ask about the issue of craft and Spicer’s apparent antipathy to the idea\n\t\t073\tSpicer expounds on craft and the artist\n\t\t088\tA tussle in the audience over one questioner imposing his categories on Jack’s poem, especially the term meditative.  Another audience member says this a way of talking about them so that he doesn’t see what they are\n\t\t093\tSpicer interrupts to talk about the use of “meditative”\n\t\t107\tQuestioner believes Spicer is more interested in meditation than poetry, in the Ignatian sense\n\t\t109\tSpicer agrees – says that’s the first thing for the poet, especially for the beginning poet\n\t\t118\tSpicer says it’s a question of what is the first thing to reach, you do the simplest thing first – empty yourself out\n\t\t146\tEnd of tape, Side two"],"score":4.229238},{"id":"5376","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Lecture #3: Jack Spicer at Tallman’s house in Vancouver on June 17, 1965 part 1 of 2 #753"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack \",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1251/Reading in BC_MsC199_753.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T02:10:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"753-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:51\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"58.1 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"753-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:51\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"60.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-17\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Warren Tallman’s House\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Warren Tallman’s House"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Jack Spicer: Lecture #3, \\nJune 17, 1965\\nRecorded at Tallman's\\npart I\\nside 1: 45:30\\nside 2: 45:10\\nMASTER\\nDOLBY B\\n #753 \",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553066405892,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.525Z","contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t008\tSide one begins with introduction by Spicer on talking about and reading a poem in process, with the possibility this could ruin the poem\n\t\t032\tHe will give some background to the process of his poem.  He asks the audience to imagine that he has started to write a poem that he is one quarter to halfway through and invites questions on the process of this poem and how he would treat a poem he was starting now\n\t\t093\tSomeone asks what Spicer is worried about\n\t\t094\tQuestions begin before the reading of the poem-in-process beginning with someone asking if he wants the audience to write his poem.  Spicer responds, no, but that it is a possible problem when reading an unfinished work\n\t\t095\tSpicer responds with a discussion of the previous Vancouver poems he wrote, one of which was a section of a long poem called The Book of Magazine Verse\n\t\t122\tSpicer describes his numbering and sectioning process\n\t\t145\tSpicer thought of writing poems for magazines that wouldn’t print them.  General laughter\n\t\t139\tQuestioner asks if at this point he sees several directions at once\n\t\t160\tSpicer says he tries many directions and that this book, although good, is not that good… it may go down the drain\n\t\t173\tThe first of many questions about the mind being an empty vessel\n\t\t188\tSpicer considers the necessity of the element of chance in a poet’s work\n\t\t189\tQ; Is it possible that the voice could tell you the third part first?\n\t\t212\tSpicer says he’s never changed chronological order, but it is possible and he would like to.  But then whatever you’d like to do, is a very bad idea in a poem\n\t\t220\tSpicer on the poet’s own rules.  Rules can be arbitrary you can have rules that you cheat from, you can change the rules\n\t\t238\tAre you cheating at this game if you use the dream?\n\t\t241\tSpicer explains this question is in reference to Vancouver poems that were almost edited directly from drams he had in Vancouver in May, 1965\n\t\t249\tSpicer thinks a dream is the same as any other piece of furniture in the room.  But he doesn’t see the dream as being a meditation thing\n\t\t285\tQuestions about dictated thoughts – where, when, how they came to Spicer\n\t\t347\tQ: Is dictation usually in words or images or combinations of these?\n\t\t348\tSpicer says it comes never in images, sometimes in rhythms\n\t\t350\tDorothy Livesay interjects that Hopkins heard the music and the rhythm and finally had to write The Wreck of the Deutschland\n\t\t354\tSpicer says his Arthur poem mentions the noise in the head of the poem which dictates itself in rhythm, which always is in rhythm you don’t want\n\t\t363\tSpicer says you can always get poems if you know how to empty yourself\n\t\t377\tQ: Where does the craft and the intelligence of the poet enter into the poem?\n\t\t380\tSpicer says intelligence is part of the furniture and craft is something you want to get out of the house so enough ghosts can get into the house.  You have to learn to take out the majority of your craft\n\t\t396\tSpicer turns to the poems (from Book of Magazine Verse) “Two Poems for The Nation”\n\t\t416\tEnds\n\t\t417\t“Six Poems for Poetry Chicago”\n\t\t425\tTwo\n\t\t437\tThree\n\t\t439\tTape fades out and seems to begin again at 425 (above)\n\t\t449\tFour\n\t\t457\tFive\n\t\t472\tEnd\n\t\t473\tTISH Poems 1\n\t\t482\tTwo\n\t\t489\tThree\n\t\t498\tEnd\n\t\t499\t“Four Poems for Ramparts”\n\t\t521\tThree\n\t\t529\tFour\n\t\t540\tEnds\n\t\t541\tFour Poems for The St. Louis Sporting News\n\t\t551\tTwo\n\t\t560\tThree\n\t\t569\tFour\n\t\t578\tEnds\n\t\t579\t“Poems for the Vancouver Festival”\n\t\t604\tTape ends in the middle of #3\n\t\t\tContinued on Side Two\nTwo\t\t005\tSide two begins mid-reading by Spicer\n\t\t013\tQuestions begin with wanting to know how long Spicer had been working on this poem\n\t\t018\tSpicer discusses writing The Vancouver poems in Vancouver.  Spicer says the current poems are in a mess, not knowing what they want to be\n\t\t056\tSpicer asks what is the audience’s reaction to the poems just read (presumably the Vancouver poems) – do the voices come through?\n\t\t058\tVarious subjective comments from audience\n\t\t113\tSpicer feels the poem will move closer toward building the city instead of the celebration of the city as the Textbook of Poetry did\n\t\t149\tJamie sees the Vancouver Poems as being intimately connected wi5th the baseball image of the city – the diamond image connected with the city’s pearl in the sea image\n\t\t175\tSpicer says he wrote the poem after going to “that awful place where the ferry boats are” – (Horseshoe Bay)\n\t\t188\tSpicer explains his use of the term ‘measure’ as it relates to the city and walking through it\n\t\t253\tQuestioner argues that there must be a voice which is inherently that of the poet and not the furniture cluttering the mind\n\t\t255\tSpicer disagrees\n\t\t276\tSpicer goes into music and Stravinsky to elaborate his point\n\t\t302\tQuestioner asks if not all of the questions directed at Spicer contain a doubt that Spicer’s skills, personality, accomplishment with language are ruled out when the upside is dictating the poem.  If people are not wondering if you’re there, Jack Spicer?\n\t\t313\tSpicer agrees that people don’t believe him, but that they may believe him if there were to try it\n\t\t329\tSpicer is asked – again – if he sees the dictation of the poem as a meditative process instead of some technique of poetry\n\t\t330\tSpicer says Cezanne (his favourite painter) likely never meditated a day in his life, but he managed to have his last 10 years of painting pure of anything which he intended which is something that Kandinsky (nice painter) never did\n\t\t339\tSpicer points out that he doesn’t expect anyone to take his word on it, but he would like to see people experiment with it\n\t\t347\tSpicer goes back to the discussion of his mind being a blank as he works.  It is an impossible process to make your mind a blank – He points to the process of playing an instrument as an example\n\t\t363\tInterjection from listener claiming Spicer to have given the best and most accurate description of the production of art he has ever heard\n\t\t376\tSame speaker says Copland once remarked that the best performances always are those just this side of disaster.  He says this is so much like Spicer’s idea of taking a change and risking it\n\t\t386\tSpicer says Ernst Block came to CAL and was pleased by the fact that Toscanini said he wouldn’t play anything by Block because it was too bloody.  Bloch realized he had to play the dance between the tensions of bloody and too bloody\n\t\t403\tQ: How do you judge what comes through to be a true message, what do you want to say?\n\t\t407\tSpicer uses the analogy of baseball again calling the poet a catcher who likes to think of himself as a pitcher.  Diverges into a baseball pitching anecdote denoting how a pitcher gets pleased with something he’s done\n\t\t457\tQ: about the magazine verse poem and Spicer’s comment about being becalmed or not becalmed\n\t\t474\tSpicer asks what people thought about the lemon.  Discussion ensues about oranges and lemons and oval as the wrong description of a lemon\n\t\t515\tStudent remarks that it seemed like a Romantic poem compared to the Heads of the Town Up to the Aether which gave Spicer’s bitterness\n\t\t526\tSpicer asks if anyone saw the connection with the oranges and the last baseball poem\n\t\t531\tSpicer says Abner Doubleday was one of the first inventors of baseball and the first president of the American Theosophical Society.  Debate continues as to whether baseball belongs to Vancouver, or to Canada, or not.  Discussion dissolves into laughter and general chaos.\n\t\t537\tDorothy Livesay suggests the poem is about Spicer, about the States, it’s not Canadian.  She says baseball is an American game; here they play soccer and cricket.  She is generally laughed and booed down"],"score":4.229238},{"id":"5377","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Lecture #3, Jack Spicer at Tallman’s house in Vancouver on June 17, 1965 part 2 of 2 #754"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack \",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1252/Reading in BC_MsC199_754.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:52:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"754-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:10\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"29.2 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"754-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:29:07\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"28.2 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-17\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Warren Tallman’s house\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Warren Tallman’s house"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Jack Spicer: Lecture #3, \\nJune 17, 1965\\nRecorded at Tallman's\\npart II\\nside 1: 29:25\\nside 2: 28:30\\nMASTER\\nDOLBY B\\n #754 \",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553067454464,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.525Z","contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t009\tQ: If you pitched an orange to your own catcher, you yourself writing, would you catch it?\n\t\t019\tSpicer: Is there a batter between the pitcher and the catcher?\n\t\t028\tSpicer goes into baseball metaphor to contend with this question\n\t\t047\tStudents ask about a play on the words lemon and pitcher, and various other word usages, ie. Oranges and lemons\n\t\t085\tQuestion regarding Yeats’s message of a non-tragic universe.  Does Spicer sense that the news coming to him is of a tragic or non-tragic nature?\n\t\t109\tA question about the fool to which Spicer responds on the catcher as the fool.  A long discussion baseball metaphors follows, which ends at 196 with Spicer saying he thinks the baseball metaphor has gotten them all confused\n\t\t202\tA return to the discussion with a question about how long it will take Spicer to finish the poem.  Spicer to finish the poem.  Spicer reflects on not wanting to leave Vancouver, not having a job, his reluctance to return to Berkeley\n\t\t217\tResponding to a question about a transition he is undergoing in his writing, Spicer uses radio metaphor to explain that one cannot separate writing from living\n\t\t226\tA question asking when Heads of the Town was written and several comments follow, including one by Dorothy Livesay, which agree that it seemed a different poem from others\n\t\t242\tA question on Spicer’s change of writing as it is affected by change in lifestyle\n\t\t245\tSpicer explains\n\t\t286\tEllen Tallman says the last part of the Vancouver festival poetry makes her feel that the questions and warnings that exist in Spicer’s other poems aren’t there in the last three poems\n\t\t292\tSpicer agrees that it scares him too\n\t\t294\tAn outburst of discussion on this point\n\t\t309\tQ: This change of geography – is it important to most poets and to yourself?\n\t\t317\tSpicer responds that gait is more important than measure to changes in geography\n\t\t333\tAnecdote about Valery going to a lecture about his own poems.  “I felt as though they were talking about a ghost of myself”\n\t\t345\tQuestioner returns to his inquiry into the tragic dimension of poetry and wants to pursue the discussion into what he sees as the comic dimension of Spicer’s poems\n\t\t348\tSpicer quotes Ogden Nash in response\n\t\t372\tA question about the lines of distinction between Spicer and the ghosts\n\t\t380\tSpicer complains that no one believes his belief in the ghost, that what he writes is outside of, rather than in his head\n\t\t383\tSomeone responds that it is not so much disbelief as the Vancouver writing community’s preoccupation with the handling of the language as prior, whereas Spicer’s method seems to reverse that\nSide\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t397\tSide One ends in the middle of this discussion\nTwo\t\t006\tSide Two begins in the middle of a discussion about Spicer’s messages in his work\n\t\t050\tQ: At what point did Spicer begin to receive these messages\n\t\t056\tSpicer said they began halfway through the Lorca poems; before that he just wrote poems\n\t\t078\tLivesay questions Spicer about the importance of these messages to either Spicer or his readers wince Spicer says the messages are not important\n\t\t084\tSpicer qualifies his use of the term unimportant.  They are important to your life since you live it as something more than a human being\n\t\t107\tSpicer is asked if he is writing with any special purposes.  A debate ensues over Yeats\n\t\t156\tWarren Tallman asks if former poets can be part of the outside\n\t\t163\tSpicer discusses Dunbar’s Lament fort the Makers.  Says he got Lorca directly on the phone from the past.  But it’s difficult to know what is your reading of English literature and what is ghosts\n\t\t194\tSpicer describes Blaser’s ghosts and is less sure about Duncan’s ghosts\n\t\t213\tQuestion asked if the ghosts must be from or in the locale in which the writer works\n\t\t214\tSpicer says this makes sense.  A discussion of Lorca and Duende begins moving into a story about Billie Holiday\n\t\t311\tSpicer talks about TISH\n\t\t338\tTallman says that also in the summer of ’63 Olson had a visit from his angel – Did this make sense to Spicer?\n\t\t341\tSpicer says angel means messenger in Hebrew\n\t\t350\tLivesay asks if this is the same for Rilke’s angels\n\t\t351\tSpicer says Rilke’s angels come from things rather than the opposite way of Jacob’s wrestlers\n\t\t409\tSpicer invites one last question and is asked who he thinks will win the pennant.  His bet is Milwaukee\n\t\t427\tDiscussion dissolves"],"score":4.229238},{"id":"5367","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer discussion on serial poems and reading from \"The Holy Grail\" in Vancouver on June 15, 1965 part 1 of 2 #751\n"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack \",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1237/Reading in BC_MsC199_751.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T02:04:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"751-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:34:58\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"48.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"751-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:34:48\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"47.2 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1852574\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Vancouver, BC, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.2528\",\"longitude\":\"-123.1145\"}]"],"Address":["Vancouver, BC, Canada"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Jack Spicer: serial poems, The Holy Grail Vancouver BC, June 15, 1965\\npart I\\nside 1: 34:10\\nside 2: 33:57\\n#751 \",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553073745924,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.525Z","contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t009\tIntroductory comments by Jack Spicer\n\t\t036\tThe Serial Poem was a kind of joke to begin with; the name of it, that is, not the poem itself.  Spicer refers to Robin Blaser’s poetics and the similarities between their serial poems’ style\n\t\t050\tSpicer refers to Duncan’s poems “Medieval Scenes” (Selected Poems) and “The Opening of the Field” as his two best poems that are also “pure honest-to-god serial poems”\n\t\t066\tSpicer reflects on what a serial poem is.  First you have to know what it isn’t in order to determine what it is\n\t\t082\tYou have to go into a serial poem not knowing what you are doing.  You have to be tricked into it.  You can’t do what D.H. Lawrence did in Birds, Beasts and Flowers and say that this is a serial poem\n\t\t096\tA serial poem has to be chronological\n\t\t107\tSpicer says Stevens’ Harmonium is closer to the serial poem.  His poems written over four years do connect and seem to proceed under their own laws\n\t\t117\tOlson and Pound are good examples of how the planned poem can get caught up in and become a serial poem.  Olson’s Maximus Poems changed as he began his writing\n\t\t140\tOlson started out as a man facing history and the poems have become something more than that, which Spicer is sure has scared Olson many times by the way that the poems go\n\t\t158\tThe real serial poem takes you on a path that you have no idea about, and which permits no looking backwards\n\t\t190\tSpicer says he wrote The Holy Grail being completely unsuspicious that what he started out to write would become a book of poems\n\t\t196\tWhen the first book was completed, Spicer experienced surprise at the form that took place in the book.  He discusses the voices in search of the Holy Grail and the Book of Percival\n\t\t227\tSpicer thinks what makes people (Duncan, Robin Blaser, himself) write serial poems is the fact of becoming focused on the individual part enough to have a better chance of being an empty vessel to be filled up by whatever is outside\n\t\t244\tSpicer discusses his process of writing the “dictated poem” in one sitting to avoid the poet later imposing a voice on the poem\n\t\t253\tSpicer is asked if in the meantime other poems are happening to him\n\t\t256\tSpicer responds that this is probably true, yet they rarely have anything to do with the poem, and can result in you dictating the path to the poem rather than the poem dictating to you\n\t\t290\tSpicer discusses “the Hunting of the Snark” as a narrative poem which in some ways resembles a serial poem\n\t\t299\tQuestioner notes that Spicer argues you cannot interfere with the pathway, you cannot look back.  Spicer interrupts question with a comment that the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice was an attempt to enter this concept into Greek poetry\n\t\t305\tQuestioner asks then when do you know you’re on the wrong path?\n\t\t313 \tSpicer responds by discussing his process with his “textbook of poetry”.  (The Heads of the Town, Up to the Author, (Homage to Creeley)\n\t\t326\tSpicer talks about Yeats coming closer to the serial poem than most other poets\n\t\t330\tSpicer says cheating at this game is permissible as long as it’s done at the right time\n\t\t339\tSpicer introduces The Holy Grail by referencing poems by Tennyson (Idylls of the King)\n\t\t349\tSpicer reads from The Holy Grail\n\t\t426\tPoem 4 fades out on recording and fades in again at Poem 5\n\t\t476\tSide one ends at Poem #6\nTwo\t\t007\tSide two begins at start of Poem 6\n\t\t342\tEnd of reading of The Holy Grail\n\t\t347\tSpicer invites questions about things not understood in the poem\n\t\t358\tQuestion asked if the medium of dictating ended after “The Book of Arthur”\n\t\t359\tSpicer says the dictation about the death of Arthur had to end with his death\n\t\t368\tWho are the Tony(s) in the poem?\n\t\t368\tSpicer responds that proper names are a disturbance in the poem that must be addressed then left behind\n\t\t383\tQuestion about the reference to ocean in “the Book of Lancelot”\n\t\t385\tSpicer talks about the reference in terms of Irish versus non-Irish and a lack of an ocean off the Irish Coast.  The ocean is always at the outside, the periphery of the legend although the Grail legend does not mention an ocean\n\t\t392\tWho was the Old Flash?\n\t\t392\tSpicer says it was a Frankie Trish quotation from a baseball game\n\t\t397\tQuestioner says he’s at a loss with  The Book of Lancelot, seventh poem\n\t\t399\tIn response to Spicer’s “why”, questioner says he has problem with the horse being called “Dada”\n\t\t400\tSpicer says the Book of Lancelot is the most laboured.  (Dada refers to the word hobby horse chosen by the Dadaists).  Spicer says many things in this Book are radically wrong, and the poet is conscious of himself during the poem.  The Book of Guinevere, however rescues it\n\t\t412\tSpicer repeats that Guinevere is a bitch and questioner asks why he keeps saying that\n\t\t423\tSpicer says the book took nine months to write and that all mammals have different gestation periods, all books do too\n\t\t438\tSpicer explains the Foolkiller, as a Western American Story meant to frighten children\n\t\t456\tSpicer discusses character of Percival as the best person in the Grail story\n\t\t465\tSpicer found it annoying when the character of Percival entered the dictation because he thought the poem was finished\n\t\t473\tTape Side two ends mid-sentence"],"score":4.229238},{"id":"5644","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading on April 11, 1957 #392"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Production_Date":[1957],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/5821/Reading in BC_MsC199_392.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\" Black and white clear jewel case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"392-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:04\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"43.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"392-side-2 - Blank.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:59\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"48.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"It's blank\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1957-04-11\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\t\n\t\t008\tJack Spicer reading assorted works.\n\t\t550\tEnd\nTwo\t\t000\tSide Two is blank"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553733300228,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.173Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5645","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Panel discussion: \"Spicer in Context\", Jack Spicer conference at New College of California with Bruce Boone, Michael Davidson, John Granger, and George Stanley on June 19, 1986 part 1 of 3 #393"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Boone, Bruce","Davidson, Michael","Granger, John","Stanley, George"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Boone, Bruce","Davidson, Michael","Granger, John","Stanley, George"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Boone, Bruce\",\"dates\":\"1940-\",\"notes\":\"He is the program's moderator \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/111011925\",\"name\":\"Davidson, Michael\",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/55986812\",\"name\":\"Granger, John\",\"dates\":\"1961-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/30781582\",\"name\":\"Stanley, George\",\"dates\":\"1934-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Production_Date":[1986],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/5822/Reading in BC_MsC199_393.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"393-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:01\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"44.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"393-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:02\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"44.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1986-06-19\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/358818845#map=19/37.86675/-122.26884\",\"venue\":\"New College of California\",\"notes\":\"New College Berkley\",\"address\":\"San Francisco, California , United States\",\"latitude\":\"37.8667498\",\"longitude\":\"-122.2688401\"}]"],"Address":["San Francisco, California , United States"],"Venue":["New College of California"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nA\t\t000\tIntroduction of “Spicer in context” discussion by Bruce Boone\n\t\t\tHe discusses the inter-relation of voice and text\n\t\t038\tBoone reads the poem “Battle of New Orleans”\n\t\t056\tBoone introduces Michael Davidson, who is writing a book on the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance\n\t\t070\tMichael Davidson reads a chapter about Spicer and community called “The City Redefined – Community and Dialogue in Jack Spicer.”\n\t\t300\tBoone introduces John Granger.  Granger talks about Spicer’s work as a decontextualization.  He says that disturbance in pronoun referents is a strategy among gay writers.\n\t\t372\tGranter reads the first “Marxist Essay,” and parts of Letters to Lorca\n\t\t532\tA cut in the tape. Discussion of the influence of the Cocteau movies\n\t\t588\tBoone introduces George Stanley, who discusses “The Battle of New Orleans”\n\t\t612\tTape ends\nB\t\t000\tStanley reads “A Diamond” – After Lorca and does a stanza by stanza analysis\n\t\t039\tSymbolic events in Spicer’s transitional works\n\t\t\t“For Billy”, “Admonitions: and “Apollo sends seven nursery rhymes.”\n\t\t143\tReads”Ghost song”\n\t\t152\tDiscusses “Duet for a chair and a table”\n\t\t162\tBilly the Kid as an Osiris Figure\n\t\t200\t“Fifteen false propositions against God”\n\t\t214\tReads the second quintet from “False propositions”\n\t\t232\tReads “Number seven” from above\n\t\t252\tReads from Apollo sends seven nursery rhymes\n\t\t264\tThe search for metaphysical ground in the later poems\n\t\t301\tDiscussion.  Bruce Boone asks – what would a poetic community look like as it progressed?\n\t\t373\tSpicer’s sense of politicism and sexuality\n\t\t439\tMichael Davidson reds a passage from Bakhtin on image and community\n\t\t469\tBataille and community\n\t\t510\tThe double necessity/impossibility of community in Spicer \n\t\t614\tTape over"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553956646912,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.384Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5888","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["The Vancouver lectures: Jack Spicer Poetic dictation at Tallman Residence cont'd on June 13, 1965 #1b"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"There are also voices of people who are asking questions.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/167/Reading in BC_MsC199_1b.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:02:05\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and clear case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"1b-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:31:15\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"21.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"1b-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:31:01\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"20.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-13\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting\nSee detailed contents on j-card in Material Description"],"contents":["Two\tA\t000\tContinues with The Textbook of Poetry\n\t\t040\tComments from audience\n\t\t190\tReading continues\n\t\t170\tQuestions from audience\n\t\t290\tReading continues\n\t\t390\tQuestions from audience\n\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Poetic Dictation Side 3 31:20 Side 4 30:45\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554188382209,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5889","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["The Vancouver lecture: Jack Spicer Poetic dictation at Tallman Residence cont'd on June 13, 1965 #2"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"There are also voices of people who are asking questions.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/173/Reading in BC_MsC199_2.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T00:50:55\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"2-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:10\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"20.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"2-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:21:06\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"14.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-13\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tA\t000\tContinuation of reading and discussion from tapes #1a and #1b\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Poetic Dictation Side 5 30 min Side 6 20:55 Conclusion Dolby B Master\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554188382210,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5890","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, and Stan Persky readings at The New Design Gallery on June 1965 #3a"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57448780\",\"name\":\"Persky, Stan\",\"dates\":\"1941-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/17240199\",\"name\":\"Blaser, Robin\",\"dates\":\"1925-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/174/Reading in BC_MsC199_3A.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:10:15\",\"physical_condition\":\"Very Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"3a-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:35:54\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"24.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"3a-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:35:00\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"24.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"Recordered before June 13\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"New Design Gallery\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Vancouver, BC, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Vancouver, BC, Canada"],"Venue":["New Design Gallery"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tIntroduction and announcements\n\t\t030\tBlaser reads “The Moth Poem”\n\t\t157\tBlaser reads “Cups”\n\t\t254\tSpicer reads “Billy The Kid”\n\t\t320\tBlaser reads “The Park”\n\t\t386 \tPersky reads “The Lives of The French Symbolist Poets”\n\t\t477\tBlaser reads “The Moth Poem”\n\t\t680\tBlaser reads “The Translator”\n\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Reading at New Design Gallery June 1965 Side 1 35:50Side 2 34:25 Dolby B Master\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554188382211,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5898","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading Language at UBC in February, 1965 and in Berkeley: \"Summer Days,\" July 1965 #3b"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert","Woolf, Leonard"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert","Woolf, Leonard"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57448780\",\"name\":\"Persky, Stan\",\"dates\":\"1941-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/17240199\",\"name\":\"Blaser, Robin\",\"dates\":\"1925-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/105142281\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Robert \",\"dates\":\"1919-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/2534183\",\"name\":\"Woolf, Leonard\",\"dates\":\"1880-1969\",\"notes\":\"his poetry is read\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/184/Reading in BC_MsC199_3b.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:10:15\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"3b-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46.36\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"31.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"3b-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:47\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"16 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-02 \",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"},{\"date\":\"1965-07\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2833528#map=13/37.8712/-122.3014\",\"venue\":\"Berkeley\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Berkley, California, USA\",\"latitude\":\"37.8700\",\"longitude\":\"-122.2923\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1424987\",\"venue\":\"UBC \",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4\",\"latitude\":\"49.2586\",\"longitude\":\"-123.2452\"}]"],"Address":["Berkley, California, USA","6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4"],"Venue":["Berkeley","UBC "],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Two\t\t000\tSpicer reads “Thing Language”\n\t\t168 \tSpicer reads “Intermissions”\n\t\t189\tSpicer reads “Transformations”\n\t\t212\tSpicer reads “Morphemics”\n\t\t243\tSpicer reads “Phonemics”\n\t\t294\tSpicer reads “Graphemics”\n\t\t\tJuly, 1965 – Berkeley – Summer Days\n\t\t383\tGeneral conversation with Duncan, Spicer, Blaser, Persky, and others\n\t\t454\tDuncan reads “Hark, hark, the cunning spring…”\n\t\t465\tConversation – predominantly Duncan\n\t\t538\tDuncan reads Leonard Woolf poem\n\t\t554\tConversation\n\t\t589\tBlaser reads Ken Kearns “Hymn To A Private Detective”\n\t\t598\tConversation\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Side A: Jack Spicer reading Language at UBC, February, 1965 (P). 47 min. Side B: Berkley: \\\"Summer Days\\\", July 1965 Duncan Spicer, Blaser, Persky and others. 23:40 min\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554189430790,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5899","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Berkeley: Summer Days, cont'd July 1965 #4a"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57448780\",\"name\":\"Persky, Stan\",\"dates\":\"1941-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/17240199\",\"name\":\"Blaser, Robin\",\"dates\":\"1925-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/105142281\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Robert \",\"dates\":\"1919-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/185/Reading in BC_MsC199_4A.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:30:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Very Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\" Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"4a-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:45:05\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"29.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"4a-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:44:44\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"29.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-07\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"No dates mentioned in the recording \",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2833528#map=13/37.8712/-122.3013\",\"venue\":\"Berkeley\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Berkeley, California, USA\",\"latitude\":\"37.8700\",\"longitude\":\"-122.2923\"}]"],"Address":["Berkeley, California, USA"],"Venue":["Berkeley"],"City":["Berkeley, California"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tA\t000\tConversations from previous tapes\n\t\t274\tStan Persky reads Spicer’s play about Michael the Critic and Robert the Poet (written for a Josephine Miles’ class)\n\t\t290\tRobin Blaser replacing Persky for latter half of play\n\t\t390\tRobin Blaser reads Spicer’s poem “The Bridge Game”\n\t\t550\tRobert Duncan reads his “A Discourse On Love”\n\t\t630\tRobert Duncan reads “And now I have returned…”\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Berkley: \\\"Summer Days\\\", July 1965 Duncan Spicer, Blaser, Persky and others. Side 2: 45 min Side 3: 45 min Continued on tape 4b\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554190479360,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5900","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Berkeley: Summer Days, cont'd July 1965 #4b"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57448780\",\"name\":\"Persky, Stan\",\"dates\":\"1941-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/17240199\",\"name\":\"Blaser, Robin\",\"dates\":\"1925-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/105142281\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Robert \",\"dates\":\"1919-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/187/Reading in BC_MsC199_4B.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T00:40:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Very Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\" Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"4b-side-4.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:29:30\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"26.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-07\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"No dates mentioned on the recording \",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2833528#map=13/37.8712/-122.3013\",\"venue\":\"Berkeley\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Berkeley, California, USA\",\"latitude\":\"37.8670\",\"longitude\":\"-122.2971\"}]"],"Address":["Berkeley, California, USA"],"Venue":["Berkeley"],"City":["Berkeley, California"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Two\tA\t000\tDuncan continues “And now I have returned…”\n\t\t017\tDuncan reads “The Revenant”\n\t\t\tBlaser re Ernst Kantorowitz\n\t\t\tDuncan says “We all read Mary Butts” (period 1944-45)\n\t\t\tBlaser reads “Those Were Not Soldiers”\n\t\t\tBlaser reads “Song in Four Parts for God the Son”\n\t\t\tBlaser reads “Song for Plato”\n\t\t\tBlaser reads Spicer’s Troy Poem\n\t\t\tPersky reads “Troy Poem”\n\t\t\tPersky reads Spicer’s “The Night in Four Parts”\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Berkley: \\\"Summer Days\\\", July 1965 Duncan Spicer, Blaser, Persky and others. Side 4: 30 min Concludes with side 4.\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554190479361,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5901","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Readings at Berkeley: Summer Days, cont'd July 1965 #5a copy 2"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57448780\",\"name\":\"Persky, Stan\",\"dates\":\"1941-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/17240199\",\"name\":\"Blaser, Robin\",\"dates\":\"1925-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/105142281\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Robert \",\"dates\":\"1919-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/188/Reading in BC_MsC199_5A.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:01:30\",\"physical_condition\":\"Very Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\" Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"5a-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:44\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"20.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"5a-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:31:13\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"21.1 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-07\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2833528#map=13/37.8712/-122.3013\",\"venue\":\"Berkeley\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Berkley, California, USA\",\"latitude\":\"37.8670\",\"longitude\":\"-122.2971\"}]"],"Address":["Berkley, California, USA"],"Venue":["Berkeley"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tA\t000\tPersky continues reading Spicer’s  “The Night in Four Parts”\n\t\t\tDuncan reading his “The War Within Without The War” (for Robin Blaser)\n\t\t\tBlaser reads his answer to Duncan’s poem\n\t\t\tDuncan refers to Landis\n\t\t\tBlaser notes “Jack had left for Minnesota…”\n\t\t\tBlaser reads Spicer’s open letter to Duncan (dated around 1950)\n\t\t\tDuncan reads his answer\n\t\t\tDuncan reads his “The Morning Letter”\n\t\t\tSpicer recalls his first impressions of the Maximus Poems\n\t\t\tSpicer’s judgment of Ransom as a poet\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes:  \\\"Summer Days\\\", Reading at Berkley, July 1965 Duncan Spicer, Blaser, Persky and others. Side 1: 30:45 min Side 2: 30:45\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554190479362,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"5902","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Readings at Berkeley: \"Summer Days,\" cont-d July 1965 #5b copy 2"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Persky, Stan","Blaser, Robin","Duncan, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57448780\",\"name\":\"Persky, Stan\",\"dates\":\"1941-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/17240199\",\"name\":\"Blaser, Robin\",\"dates\":\"1925-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/105142281\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Robert \",\"dates\":\"1919-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/189/Reading in BC_MsC199_5B.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:15:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Very Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"5b-side-3.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:37:20\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"24.7 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"5b-side-4.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:38:57\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"25.6\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-07\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2833528#map=13/37.8712/-122.3013\",\"venue\":\"Berkeley\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Berkeley, California\",\"latitude\":\"37.8670\",\"longitude\":\"-122.2971\"}]"],"Address":["Berkeley, California"],"Venue":["Berkeley"],"City":["Berkeley, California"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Two\tA\t000\tSpicer on the invisible world\n\t\t\tDiscussion of magic\n\t\t\tDuncan and Spicer agreeing “the world around you then supplies the poems…”\n\t\t\tSpicer refers to Butler’s “Myth of the Magus”\n\t\t\tSpicer re the grail\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes:  \\\"Summer Days\\\", Reading at Berkley, July 1965 Duncan Spicer, Blaser, Persky and others. Side 3: 37 min Side 4: 38 min\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554191527936,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6041","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading The Serial Poem at Tallman's Residence on June 15, 1965 tape 2 of 6 #93b"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"In the inventory it states that he is a donor, but we do not know what it means\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/504/Reading in BC_MsC199_93b.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:12:15\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"93b-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:38:11\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"25.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"93b-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:37:05\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"24.9 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-15\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Two\t\t000\tFurther discussion of pleasure\n\t\t\t-more advice to young poets\n\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer. June 15, 1965 Side 3 35:15 Side 4 37:00 Serial Poems - continued\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554416971776,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.804Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6042","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading The Serial Poem at Tallman's Residence on June 15, 1965 tape 1 of 6 #93a"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"In the inventory it states that he is a donor, but we do not know what it means\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/506/Reading in BC_MsC199_93a.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:13:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"93a-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:30:45\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"20.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"93a-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:34:10\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"22.7 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-15\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tSpicer begins lecture on the serial poem\n\t\t185\tBegins reading The Holy Grail\n\t\t\tThe Book of Gawain\n\t\t225\tThe Book of Percival – in part IV of this section, the volume is considerably reduced and is not regained until midway through part V\n\t\t264\tThe Book of Lancelot\n\t\t320\tThe Book of Gwenivere\n\t\t372\tThe Book of Merlin\n\t\t424\tThe Book of Galahad\n\t\t483\tThe Book of The Death of Arthur\n\t\t550\tQuestions from audience re The Holy Grail\n\t\t\tMore questions and discussion re:\n\t\t\t-the writing of a serial poem\n\t\t\t-similarities and differences in the work of Spicer, Blaser and Duncan\n\t\t\t-revision – Yeats, Stevens\n\t\t\t-formal conventions\n\t\t\t-dictation\n\t\t\t-poetry not meant as a pleasure – pleasure is only incidental\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer. June 15, 1965 The Serial Poem 13 min. The Holy Grail: The Book of Gawain The Book of Percival (Part 4 missing) The book of Lancelot 14 min The book of Guinevere The book of Merlin The book of Galahad The death of Arthur\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554416971777,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.804Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6043","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading The Serial Poem: conclusion and The Book of Magazine Verse at Tallman's Residence on June 15 and 17, 1965 tape 3 of 6 #94a"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/512/Reading in BC_MsC199_94a.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T00:59:30\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"94a-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:29:42\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"19.9 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"94a-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:28:52\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"27.2 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-15\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"},{\"date\":\"1965-06-17\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tConclusion of discussion on The Holy Grail – Tape #93, June 15/65 – Tallman’s\n\t\t230\tBeginning of discussion on The Book of Magazine Verse which at that time was still in the process of being written.\n\t\t565\tReading from The Book of Magazine Verse\n\t\t\tTwo Poems for The Nation\n\t\t594\tSix Poems For Poetry Chicago\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer. June 15, 1965 Side 5 The serial poem - conclusion of June 15 20 min Beginn June 17: The Book of Magazine verse 10 min Side 6 Magazine Verse continued 29:30\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554724204544,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.119Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6044","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading The Book of Magazine Verse at Tallman's Residence on June 17, 1965 tape 4 of 6 #94b"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"In the inventory it states that he is a donor, but we do not know what it means\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/517/Reading in BC_MsC199_94b.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:00:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"94b-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:29:57\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"28.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"94b-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:29:37\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"28.1 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-17\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Two\t\t025\tThree Poems For Tish\n\t\t042\tFour Poems For Ramparts\n\t\t073\tFour Poems For St. Louis Sporting News\n\t\t104\tPoems For Vancouver Festival\n\t\t200\tDiscussion re reading, various aspects of writing\n\t\t\tLast part of this discussion is to be found on Tape #95 – Tallman’s\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer. June 17, 1965 Side 7 30 min Book of Magazine verse Side 8 30 min\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554725253120,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.119Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6045","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer giving Lecture after The Serial Poem at Tallman's Residence on June 17, 1965 tape 5 of 6 #95"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"In the inventory it states that he is a donor, but we do not know what it means\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/518/Reading in BC_MsC199_95.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T00:57:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"95-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:29:41\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"27.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"95-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:27:21\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"25.7 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-17\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting\n"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t1\t000\tConclusion of June 17 lecture\n\t\t\tDiscussion re: baseball\n\t\t\t                          Tragedy\n\t\t\t                          Messages\n\t\t\t                          The ‘outside’\n\t\t\t                          Dictation\n\t\t\t                          Angel-messenger\nOne\t2\t000\tJack Spicer reading from Language\n\t\t\tThing Language\n\t\t\tLove Poems\n\t\t\tIntermissions\n\t\t\tTransformations\n\t\t\tMorphemics\n\t\t\tPhonemics\n\t\t\tGraphemics\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer. June 17, 1965 Side 9 29:40 min  Side 10 27:20 min Conclusion of lecture Tape 5\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554725253121,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.119Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6046","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading from Language at Tallman's Residence on June 15, 1965 tape 6 of 6 #96"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"In the inventory it states that he is a donor, but we do not know what it means\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/519/Reading in BC_MsC199_96.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T00:44:30\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"96-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:28:31\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"26.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"96-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:16:16\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"15.2 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-15\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"There is some confusion with months on the tape, but it is June\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tA\t000\tConclusion of the first lecture at the Tallman’s\n\t\t\tA transcription of this session can be found in the journal Caterpillar #12\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer. June 15, 1965 \\\"Dictation\\\" Side 1 28:30 Side 2 16:00\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554725253122,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.119Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6048","cataloger_name":["Isabella,Wang"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Jack Spicer reading in Vancouver and Charles Olson in [Buffalo?] both on June 17, 1965 #237"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack","Olson, Charles"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack","Olson, Charles"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/27091190\",\"name\":\"Olson, Charles\",\"dates\":\"1910-1970\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/522/Readings in BC_MsC199_237.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"237-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:37:03\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"35.7 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"237-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:34\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"45.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-17\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"Inventory\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1852574\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Vancouver, BC, Canada \",\"latitude\":\"49.2727\",\"longitude\":\"-123.1554\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/68036581\",\"venue\":\"[Buffalo – S.U.N.Y. (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":4.229238},{"id":"6214","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["The Vancouver lectures: Jack Spicer Poetic Dictation at Tallman Residence on June 13, 1965 #1a\n\n\n\n"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_title_note":["Liner notes: see the photo in the material description"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Spicer, Jack"],"creator_names_search":["Spicer, Jack"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors_names_search":["Enomoto, Randy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/256444645\",\"name\":\"Enomoto, Randy \",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Recordist\"]}]"],"Recordist_name":["Enomoto, Randy "],"Production_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1412/Reading in BC_MsC199_1a.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:01:36\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and clear case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"1a-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T:00:30:58\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"20.7 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"1a-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:41\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"20.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1965-06-13\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/487641396\",\"venue\":\"Tallman Residence\",\"notes\":\"Tallman and family lived in the '50s & '60s at 2527 West 37th Ave in Kerrisdale and this was where quite a few talks and reading were held and recorded.\",\"address\":\"2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.23722\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11556\"}]"],"Address":["2527 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["Tallman Residence"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tA\t000\tIntroductory lecture\n\t\t235\tQuestions from audience\n\t\t540\tPrefatory remarks to The Textbook of Poetry\n\t\t595\tBegins to read The Textbook of Poetry\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer, The Vancouver Lectures, Poetic Dictation Side 1 31 min Side 2 30:36 Recorded at the Tallman Residence by Randy Enomoto\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554842693633,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.214Z","score":4.229238},{"id":"6258","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["THE DIAL-A-POEM POETS: Disconnected, Part 2 of 2 #535b"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_title_note":["Liner notes: see the photo in the material description"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Ginsberg, Allen","Brainard, Joe","Wieners, John","Malange, Gerard","Perreault, John","Spicer, Jack","Carroll, Jim","Orlovsky, Peter","Baraka, Imamu Amiri","Dorn, Ed","Lima, Frank","O'Hara, Frank","Clark, Tom","Blackburn, Paul","Ashbery, John","Whalen, Philip","Fagin, Larry","Padgett, Ron","Coolidge, Clark","Amirkhanian, Charles","Berkson, Bill","McClure, Michael"],"creator_names_search":["Ginsberg, Allen","Brainard, Joe","Wieners, John","Malange, Gerard","Perreault, John","Spicer, Jack","Carroll, Jim","Orlovsky, Peter","Baraka, Imamu Amiri","Dorn, Ed","Lima, Frank","O'Hara, Frank","Clark, Tom","Blackburn, Paul","Ashbery, John","Whalen, Philip","Fagin, Larry","Padgett, Ron","Coolidge, Clark","Amirkhanian, Charles","Berkson, Bill","McClure, Michael"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/108417923\",\"name\":\"Ginsberg, Allen\",\"dates\":\"1926-1997\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/91270464\",\"name\":\"Brainard, Joe\",\"dates\":\"1942-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/90723960\",\"name\":\"Wieners, John\",\"dates\":\"1932-2002\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Malange, Gerard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/110303657\",\"name\":\"Perreault, John\",\"dates\":\"1937-2015\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/46807530\",\"name\":\"Spicer, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1925-1965\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/14783289\",\"name\":\"Carroll, Jim\",\"dates\":\"1950-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34654554\",\"name\":\"Orlovsky, Peter\",\"dates\":\"1933-2010\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/39371896\",\"name\":\"Baraka, Imamu Amiri\",\"dates\":\"1934-2014\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/25166087\",\"name\":\"Dorn, Ed\",\"dates\":\"1929-1999\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\" http://viaf.org/viaf/77849004\",\"name\":\"Lima, Frank\",\"dates\":\"1939-2013\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/51698966\",\"name\":\"O'Hara, Frank\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/4943177\",\"name\":\"Clark, Tom\",\"dates\":\"1941-2018\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/29555679\",\"name\":\"Blackburn, Paul\",\"dates\":\"1926-1971\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/100001869\",\"name\":\"Ashbery, John\",\"dates\":\"1927-2017\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/54270610/\",\"name\":\"Whalen, Philip\",\"dates\":\"1923-2002\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/94390890\",\"name\":\"Fagin, Larry\",\"dates\":\"1937-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/17265862\",\"name\":\"Padgett, Ron\",\"dates\":\"1942- \",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/66488556\",\"name\":\"Coolidge, Clark\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/7489149108420668780004\",\"name\":\"Amirkhanian, Charles\",\"dates\":\"1945-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/74456855\",\"name\":\"Berkson, Bill\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/71493269\",\"name\":\"McClure, Michael\",\"dates\":\" 1932-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/7978/Reading in BC_MsC199_535-tape2.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"535-tape-2-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:31:2\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"42.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"535-tape-2-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:34:46\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"44.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"\",\"type\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"No location mentioned in the recording\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Two\t\t000\tAllen Ginsberg – Jimmy Berman\n\t\t044\tJoe Brainard – excerpt from More I Remember More\n\t\t119\tJohn Wieners – excerpt from Memories in a small apartment\n\t\t174\tGerard Malange – A last poem (tentative title)\n\t\t183\tJohn Perreault – nude death\n\t\t204\tJack Spicer – excerpt from Billy the Kid\n\t\t250\tJim Carroll – from the basketball diaries, age 13, spring 1965\n\t\t299\tPeter Orlovsky – all around the garden\n\t\t364\tImamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) – Our nation is like ourselves\n\t\t433\tMichael McClure – Lion poem\n\t\t466\tEd Dorn – Recollections of Grande Apacharia\n\t\t537\tFrank Lima – the hunter\n\t\t564\tFrank O’Hara – Adieu Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean Paul\n\t\t619\tBill Berkson – Stanky\n\t\t625\tLarry Fagin – a play\n\t\t631\tTom Clark – little aria\n\t\t644\tPaul Blackburn – the once-over\n\t\t668\tPhilip Whalen – if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich\n\t\t707\tRon Padgett – June 17, 1942\n\t\t797\tJohn Ashbery – the tennis court oath\n\t\t844\tClark Coolidge – excerpt from DEWS\n\t\t873\tCharles Amirkhanian - RADIL\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670555061846017,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.437Z","score":4.229238}]