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Livesay’s house"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t003\tCBC anthology – “Milton Acorn – The people’s poet”\n\t\t\tReading & documentary\n\t\t334\tEnd of “The people’s poet”\n\t\t336\tDorothy Livesay – an analysis of Milton Acorn’s poetic rhythms\n\t\t352\tSummary of Acorn’s distancing from normal speech rhythms\n\t\t\t-creation of a new rhythmic whole\n\t\t364\tThe development of this in “A Poem for a Singer”\n\t\t370\tDorothy reads a portion from “A Poem for a Singer”\n\t\t383\tMilton Acorn reading – “The Fights”\n\t\t406\t“Poem for a singer”\n\t\t463\tMilton Acorn paraphrases a poem by Bill Bissett\n\t\t487\tOlson’s influence on Acorn\n\t\t493\tProblems with the idea of form being nothing more than an extension of content\n\t\t503\tThe breath group\n\t\t506\tWriting in the iambic pattern – learned by listening to the talk of seamen\n\t\t531\tSudden break in recording\n\t\t532\t“On Zombies”\n\t\t543\tDiscussion of “On Zombies” – one of Acorn’s last poems in iambs\n\t\t581\tGrowth in the interest of poetry – education\n\t\t611\tPicasso and his approach to form – interest in form\n\t\t621\tAcorn’s experimentation in form\n\t\t623\t“Half a Line Spoken in Passing”\n\t\t670\t“The Cigarette Machine”\n\t\t712\t“Bright Moon”\n\t\t750\t“Precentenial Ode for a Geographical Abortion”\n\t\t816\tRecording ends abruptly"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Track 1 Time 27 Milton Acorn--the people's poet CBC, Oct. 31, 1976 Time 3 Analysis of Milton Acorn's Rhythms Dorothy Livesay (beginning lost) 1965 Time 10 Milton Acorn Reading + Discussion 1965 Time 15 Milton Acorn Reading + Discussion 1972? 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