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Anyhow, To whom it may concern…”\n\t\t072\t“This is a letter I wrote to Brad Robinson from Halifax… Dear Engeldink…” [******]\n\t\t130\tSound gets muddy\n\t\t225\tLetter to Brad Robinson ends.  R.K. announces break\n\t\t231\tR.K. commences again: “I lived on fourth avenue…”  These were written in 1964.  Thy were printed in an issue of Imago magazine by George Bowering\n\t\t239\tReads “Tonight nothing is enough…”\n\t\t256\t“John Newlove lived with me at that time, for a year, so a lot of these poems have to do with [that]\n\t\t258\t“Dear John: I threw out all your dirty socks…”\n\t\t267\t“The colour of death is black and white puked into a million homes…”\n\t\t274\t“The argument”\n\t\t278\t“How long have you floated in the gray scum in my coffee cup”\n\t\t283\t“John (?) has left, John too…”\n\t\t303\t“Leaves of grass grow in the pavement’s cracks where my comely daughter sings”\n\t\t308\t“For John (or Joss?) somethere in the world…”\n\t\t316\t“Already I inhabit another room…”\n\t\t321\t“This room, John…”\n\t\t327\t“Cherry blossoms in Nitobe Garden…”\n\t\t331\t“Postscript to the room…”\n\t\t336\t“In the mid-60s I did a book called Nevertheless These Eyes, a beginner’s attempt to define what poetry is all about to one man… [there are] 3 sections – each section has a crib of quotation from Stanley Spencer… a very eccentric English painter.  It was after reading his biography that I wrote these poems.  The poems purport to tell you something about the goddess through 4 or 5 voices.\n\t\t361\tReads “Words to enliven the pedestal/she gyrates upon”\n\t\t371\t“This is a quotation slightly altered from the newspaper: “She was found in the early morning…”\n\t\t383\t“My hand covets whatever it can…”\n\t\t386\t“The image of her…”\n\t\t389\t“Among the shattered pieces of the mirror…”\n\t\t392\t“Across the meadow they come…”\n\t\t398\t“At least, the mirror framed her face perfectly…”\n\t\t403\t“The dead, the numinous ones…”\n\t\t407\t“Gaston La chaise you…”\n\t\t415\t“The wind ruffles her skirts…”\n\t\t419\t“In the meadow we lay in, the unseen wind…”\n\t\t427\t“Edward Munch stuffed her scream/into his painting…”\n\t\t433\t“In a room/full of mirrors…”\n\t\t437\t“Valentine”\n\t\t447\t“Since you asked me…”\n\t\t455\t“Her admonition”\n\t\t461\t“Now other faces…”\n\t\t465\t“Who/among you…”\n\t\t469\t“I thought I saw her…”\n\t\t475\t“She is not a collage…”\n\t\t478\t“The Beloved is/resilient…”\n\t\t484\t“Behind my eyes you move…”\n\t\t489\t“Men in the night/bite empty air…”\n\t\t491\t“O guardians of the meadow…”\n\t\t495\t“Now the shadow cast by the lid of the two (?)…”\n\t\t498\t“Climbing up into the mirror/ I sat between her thighs and fell asleep…”\n\t\t506\t“It was not that she was beautiful…”  (That last poem is from H.D.’s book, called Helen in Egypt)\n\t\t516\t“I think I’ll leave it at that” (end of tape)"],"score":3.4093652},{"id":"5995","cataloger_name":["Isabella,Wang"],"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. 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