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At the time of the recording, Life Before Man is an upcoming novel.  Atwood reads a long passage which presents both a female and male perspective\n\t\t413\tEnd\n\t\t420\tFred Wah takes the microphone\n\t\t425\t“Among”, title poem from the collection Among\n\t\t430\tEnd\n\t\t437\t“Hamill’s last stand”, from Tree\n\t\t466\tEnd\n\t\t475\t“Severance springwater” from Earth\n\t\t488\tEnd\n\t\t490\tUntitled poem\n\t\t496\tEnd\n\t\t498\t“How to be something” and “How to hunt”\n\t\t510\tEnd\n\t\t511\t“What to do when you get there”\n\t\t517\tEnd\n\t\t518\t“How to disappear”\n\t\t524\tEnd\n\t\t525\t“How to build a fire”\n\t\t534\tEnd\n\t\t539\tVarious ‘river’ poems – possibly untitled, unpublished, contemporary work\n\t\t572\tEnd.  End Side One\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t007\tFred Wah continued.  Wah reads three short poems\n\t\t058\t“For the writers…”, “A Cretian translation”, “Hermes”\n\t\t060\t“A sleeping poem”\n\t\t082\tEnd\n\t\t085\tP.G. Jones takes the microphone, making some humorous comments\n\t\t110\t“Spring flowers” from Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth\n\t\t135\tEnd\n\t\t140\t“These flowers”\n\t\t156\tEnd\n\t\t160\tJones explains to the audience that he will be reading 13 poems in sequence, without pause.  All taken from Under the Thunder\n\t\t223\tJones begins reading\n\t\t350\tEnd\n\t\t356\tJones reads an unidentified three-line poem\n\t\t360\tEnd\n\t\t382\t“Lines inscribed on a stone”\n\t\t388\tEnd\n\t\t395\t“That’s it”\n\t\t401\tEnd\n\t\t407\t“Three cast with the I Ching”\n\t\t414\tEnd\n\t\t417\t“13/9/75 (Ta Kuo: Excess)”\n\t\t422\t“16/9/75 (I: Nourishment)”\n\t\t430\tEnd\n\t\t443\t“Dilemmas”\n\t\t469\tEnd\n\t\t485\t“7/5/75”\n\t\t496\tEnd\n\t\t500\t“10/5/76”\n\t\t512\tEnd\n\t\t522\t“The diamond Sutra”\n\t\t550\tEnd\n\t\t556\t“For Malcolm Lowry”\n\t\t565\tEnd\n\t\t575\t“Eliminate the valietics”\n\t\t580\tEnd"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Margaret Atwood reading form \\\"Life Before Man\\\" with Fred Wah and D. G.  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End Side One\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t005\tJones is still speaking, continuing, the debate about the differences and similarities of French and English culture.  Focus upon political elements\n\t\t130\tJones relates a story about two Quebec poets who travel to Pittsburg in order to perform at a reading\n\t\t250\tJones is questioned about the potential benefits of an English/French forum to discuss issues of culture\n\t\t270\tJones comments about likely French Canadian intellectuals who would take part in such a forum: Jones expresses his opinion about which French writers/academics would be essential to such a meeting\n\t\t\tAfter this point the interview begins to crawl – continued listless exchanges about appropriate conditions for the culture forum\n\t\t550\tEnd.  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