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“Starshit”\n\t\t051\t“Right here”\n\t\t060\t“Mass”\n\t\t070\t“and how”\n\t\t076\t“I’m going there now”\n\t\t084\tReads sequence from From Next Spring\n\t\t\t“Thanksgiving, 1976”\n\t\t096\t“The silence is more than we can hear”\n\t\t114\t“each other”\n\t\t130\t“your sure lightness”\n\t\t139\t“Canada isn’t an invention”\n\t\t152\t“That’s my old cup”\n\t\t190\t“Where were you Monday afternoon”\n\t\t230\tReads the Captions for 15 photographs of a tacky blues singer running From Burnaby Art Gallery to Vancouver City Hall\n\t\t276\tReads From a sequence called Due East, numbers 11 to 16\n\t\t331\tReads from his First book, White Lunch, from 1964\n\t\t\t-\tA version consisting of the cut-up then reconstructed \n\t\t\t-\tOriginal text\n\t\t525\tSections from From Next Spring\n\t\t527\t“You know the end of July”\n\t\t560\t“This place used to be called Eng’s”\n\t\t593\t“Prior to Union”\n\t\t691\t“Hero Duty”\n\t\t753\t“Giddy”\n\t\t778\t“A Dream”\n\t\t800\tTape 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