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I want to read a number of poems that come from that.”\n\t\t465\t“Paris”\n\t\t479\t“From the notice board (for Angela Bowering)”\n\t\t497\t“Gunsmoke”\n\t\t514\t“Stiff aspidistra in dirty window…”\n\t\t529\t“Eros to Psyche” (a variant printed in Creatures of state, p. 56)\n\t\t542\t“The hanged man” (Creatures of state, p. 54)\n\t\t567\t“The fifth transformation”\n\t\t578\t“Three poems, all entitled ‘after Dante’” (Creatures of state, p. 88)\n\t\t\t(The second and third poems are not in the printed sequence)\n\t\t612\t“For Rick Duckles”\n\t\t630\t“Prince George (for Roy Kiyooka)”\n\t\t640\tSound ends this side\nTwo\t\t000\tBackground noise\n\t\t017\tBrian Fawcett speaking, introducing second half of reading\n\t\t039\t“What I want to do is take up from where I was the last time I read in Vancouver, which is about a year ago… in terms of verse, the last book that I did was The opening and that was neither in any clear sense verse or prose.  I want to take the first half of the reading to pick up where the prose has gone from there.”\n\t\t052\t“I’ll read the last section from The opening…I’ve got a story and a speech, and then a statement.”\n\t\t062\tFrom The opening: “Up north, the first frosts are killing the weaker plants…” (125: “That was…August 30, 1972”)\n\t\t130\tWhen I wrote this book (The opening) I was on a Canada Council writing grant, and about two thirds of the way through, I went to work for the planning department as an organizer… One of the things I got to do, and… the subject of the second part of this reading tonight will be two images of cottonwood…\n\t\t157\t“I have this theory about the world, that you don’t have to go looking for images or make them up, because they always appear to you…”\n\t\t\t(Speaks of being a community organizer)\n\t\t209\tReads “The organizer” (printed in Capilano review no. 12 (2/1977), p. 137)\n\t\t544\t“That’s one ‘Cottonwood’ (speaking of the preceding story)”\n\t\t561\t“This is a fairly long and much more metered piece than the last one…\n\t\t594\t“This is a piece called Cottonwood Canyon” (explains the geography of the poem)\n\t\t648\t“Cottonwood Canyon” (reprinted in Creatures of state, p. 7)\n\t\t1370\tSound stops – turn tape over to side 1, right channel \nOne\t\t\tRight channel\n\t\t000\tB.F. 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This (present) reading will be just poems from the past year.”\n\t\t135\t“Every poem I write is an attempt to change the world…”\n\t\t197\t“If you have to go out in the cold, dress yourself in this poem first: warm arm, warm arm…”\n\t\t233\t“The second poem I’ll read is a collaboration between Brett and I, done under the pseudonym of “R. 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