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For Robert Robert Kroetsch. Joy W. Oct 15/86\n- Kerr “Aware”: poems in praise of alcohol. In Saskatchewan a television campaign called the Aware Program, promoting abstinence. \n- “Spirit”: Poem in praise of Edmonton, notes there probably aren’t many of those.\n- Going: Poems about good taste and against mass production.\n- “Transcript”: Poem for university students.\n- “Fight”: Based on the ‘fight for the family farm’, the most used political slogan in Saskatchewan.\n- Kreisel: A trip to Fiji, attempting to find his hotel reservation at the airport. Staying at a guest house and visiting with locals. Second excerpt on attending delegation on Indigenous rights.\n- Kamboureli: immigrant experience, in the form of a journal.\n- Sproxton: a head frame is a part of a mine, he feels the need to explain as many have incorrectly titled or discussed his book title. Some of the poems have to do with languages or voices playing off/against each other.\n"],"contents":["Neuman  \n[00:00:00]  \nIntroduces\nDon Kerr   \n[00:15:01]  \nReads \"1968: An Aware Poem for the Responsible Use of Alcohol\".\nDon Kerr  \n[00:17:55]  \nReads \"1968: The Spirit of Edmonton\".\nDon Kerr \n[00:20:30]  \nReads excerpt from \"Going Places\".\nDon Kerr  \n[00:23:16]  \nReads \"Editing the Prairie\".\nDon Kerr  \n[00:24:19]  \nReads \"The Transcript\".\nDon Kerr   \n[00:25:00]  \nReads \"The Fight for the Family Poet\".\nHenry Kreisel   \n[32:55]\nReads excerpts from \"Another Country\".\nSmaro Kamboureli   \n[00:56:55]  \nReads excerpts from \"In the Second Person\".\nBrix Sproxton\n[01:08:08]  \nReads excerpts from \"Head Frame\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049668,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":4.9067626}]