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Williams”.\n\t\t060\t“The I ching: biting through”\n\t\t076\t“Two of the people in (Bolinas) are in this story…Joanne Kyger… and Peter (?)”\n\t\t093\t“Big things and little things’ (from Presences, a text for Marisol, New York: Scribner’s, 1976, section one)\n\t\t200\tSpeaks of Donald Sutherland’s “On, comma, Romanticism.”  Reads the epigram to Presences, which is taken from Sutherland’s book.  Explains background of “Big things and little things…”, his meeting with Marisol.\n\t\t395\tSpeaks of James Hillman’s Revisioning psychology\n\t\t408\t“It is a scene…”  (Presences, sect 4)\n\t\t573\t“From a piece called Mabel … a kind of homage to Burroughs… (see Mabel : a story, London : Marion Boyars, 1976, p. 151)\n\t\t729\t“Explains…that the kind of women you have in mind are not persons of the town,” (the line is from p. 153)\n\t\t740\t“Think of the good times…” (Mabel, p. 152)\n\t\t1013\tSound ends, side one ends\nTwo\t\t000\tApplause…\n\t\t003\tI want to read the poem that Bob Rose… (printed).  James Hillman… pointed out that the whole sense of image in so-called western cultural patterns is really inhibited… and either moving towards what he calls the Judeo and or Hebraic pattern…monotheistic…or else you move to the Hellenic, which is the pluralistic, many-changing spatial trip, and I would simply opt for the plurality, I suppose, and the most information I have of it, is, like this, you dig:\n\t\t030\t“The plan is the body” (Creeley is reading from a broadside printed by Bob Rose for Prester John, Vancouver, B.C., 1975 – prepared for the occasion of Creeley’s reading at the Western Front.)\n\t\t095\t(Creeley reads from his notebook)\n\t\t112\tSpeaks of Laurie Gilpin, a photographer\n\t\t128\t“Possible statement in novel…”\n\t\t144\tA supper menu\n\t\t153\t“Wake in white-washed simple room in Spain”\n\t\t170\t“Thinking of Joanne Kyger: “These days flooded with preoccupation, mind flooded with mind…” (“I was thinking of a poem of hers called September.”)”\nTwo\t\t180\t“Wind in the wet upper spaces of a tree/yeah/reality’s wet.”\n\t\t184\t“In the forest”\n\t\t190\t“People…”\n\t\t197\t“Happy home”\n\t\t201\t“Bobbie’s got one here: ‘Like this one.  This is a beautiful one.’”\n\t\t204\t“Like a like…”\n\t\t205\t“Come here moon…”\n\t\t216\t“I don’t like one word poems…”\n\t\t217\t“It hurts to have to hear you…”\n\t\t224\t“Forgotten it all…”\n\t\t231\t“Why Dorothy’s wise…”\n\t\t233\t“Something doesn’t necessarily happen after something”\n\t\t237\t“Music…”\n\t\t250\t“Secrets”\n\t\t256\t“Thinking of sea” (or C?)\n\t\t265\t“World” (“a root in Wir eld… a human age”)\n\t\t279\t“To be alive is to be in each place come to…”\n\t\t296\t(Interrupts: “I’m just reading some recent poems…”)\n\t\t297\t“A lot of it’s here”\n\t\t298\t“So”\n\t\t305\t“Stan Brakhage apropos himself in Naropa scene, Boulder: ‘I was their token local.’”\n\t\t309\t“Bobbie’s phrase apropos LeRoi Jones: ‘AKA Baraka’”\n\t\t314\t“Mean”\n\t\t334\t“Here is a poem that I like that was written when Warren (Tallman) was happily down in Bolinas…”  (speaks of the artist John Chamberlain and invitation of Houston Art Gallery to R.C. to come read on occasion of John Chamberlain’s opening there.  Reads:)\n\t\t386\t“For John”\n\t\t478\t“I’ll read the other poem to him (Chamberlain)…”\n\t\t501\tSpeaks of Bob Grenier, a poet who works in word spaces and patterns, …”He did for me a generous job; he did a Selected poems for me that I couldn’t truly do myself, and this is hopefully coming out sometime this next year (1976)… He would not put a poem in, like “I propose to you a body bleached…” He would include this poem”:\n\t\t550\t“The box” from Words, rpt. Selected poems, New York : Scribner’s p. 76\n\t\t569\t“This book is one Chamberlain called – he said, ‘You’re busy measuring everything.’  It’s… a book that’s persistently involved with measure I’ll read you one that has literally to do with measure, called “Distance.”  It has to do with a photograph by Harry Callahan…”\n\t\t597\t“Distance” from Words, rpt. Selected poems, p. 60.\nTwo\t\t704\t“I get this quote in a book by James Hillman again… from Whitehead that said: ‘Importance is the…emotional worth you are.’”\n\t\t729\t“dimensions” (from Words, rpt. Selected poems, p. 67)\n\t\t780\t“I never had a chance to read this poem… It began here, actually, in Warren’s house some years ago.  And – this is it – we can all go home.  It’s called:”\n\t\t789\t“Bolinas and me” (for Stan Persky) (from A day book, rpt. 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In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. 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