[{"id":"5416","cataloger_name":["Ben,Joseph"],"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 Berkeley Poetry Conference Part 5: Charles Olson lecture and reading on July 20th, 1965 #516"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Olson, Charles","Duncan, Robert","Creeley, Bobbie"],"creator_names_search":["Olson, Charles","Duncan, Robert","Creeley, Bobbie"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/27091190\",\"name\":\"Olson, Charles\",\"dates\":\"1910-1970\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/105142281\",\"name\":\"Duncan, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1919-1988\",\"notes\":\"Introduction by Robert Duncan\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/263868544\",\"name\":\"Creeley, Bobbie \",\"dates\":\"1930-1976\",\"notes\":\"He participates in the discussion, and he is among the audience \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1965],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1292/516.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\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:00:36\",\"physical_condition\":\"Very 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\":\"516-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:45:08\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"60.3 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\":\"516-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:45:06\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"60.6 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\":\"1965-07-20\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2833528\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\" Berkeley, California, USA\",\"latitude\":\"37.8705\",\"longitude\":\"-122.2826\"}]"],"Address":[" Berkeley, California, USA"],"City":["Berkeley, California"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tIntroduction by Robert Duncan\n\t\t029\tOlson begins to speak, identifies the lecture subject as “casual mythology”\n\t\t044\tDescribes recent meeting with Pound\n\t\t058\tFour topics for discussion: The Earth, the Image of the World, the History or City, and the Spirit of the World: these will be discussed under the epigraph, “that which exists through itself is what is called meaning”\n\t\t070\tPairs the Earth (orb) and the City (urb), as well as the Spirit of the World (anima mundi) and the Image of the World (imago mundi); these terms will be related to four Maximus poems\n\t\t094\tReads “Astride/the Cabot/fault…”\n\t\t103\tPrepares to discuss the Earth in terms of woman historian Francis Rose-Troup and “Mongolian Ice”\n\t\t116\tReads from “Letter, May 2, 1959: “then to now nothing/new…”\n\t\t126\tTalks about the Earth as a “One”\n\t\t142\tResumes reading from “Letter, May 2, 1959”\n\t\t177\tLooks for a passage in the text which he can’t find\n\t\t202\tReads as earlier passage from “Letter, May 2, 1959”\n\t\t213\tEarth as orb, a familiar theme\n\t\t221\tRereads “Astride/the Cabot/fault…”\n\t\t243\tBobbie Creeley asks about the meaning of “the Diorite Stone lopped off…”; Olson responds verbally and with blackboard illustration\n\t\t314\tDescribes how the poem “The Song of Ullikummi” relates to the Diorite Stone\n\t\t370\tQuestion: What is “lopped off at the left shoulder?”; Olson responds\n\t\t394\tReads story about “the condition of the two angels”\n\t\t416\tThe Diorite Stone as the “child of Mother Earth”\n\t\t495\tBegins to speak about the “imago mundi”\n\t\t533\tIntroduces next poem\n\t\t576\tReads “rages/strain/Dog of Tartarus…”\n\t\t620\tBegins to discuss History, or City\n\t\t682\tReads “7 years & you could carry cinders in your hand…”\nTwo\t\t060\tIntroduces the subject, “anima mundi”; reads “The Song of Ullikummi”\n\t\t122\tResponds to question about anima mundi as woman\n\t\t130\tResponds to question on why he draws on other cultures for myths\n\t\t228\tResponds to question about the link between mythological elements and the establishment, trade, and war \n\t\t268\tLecture ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: \\nThe Berkeley Poetry Conference Part 5 July 20th, 1965 \\nCharles Olson:\\nThe Causal Mythology Introduced by Robert Duncan\\nSide 1: 41 min\\nSide 2: 38:25\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553271926786,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.732Z","score":5.599449}]