[{"id":"6232","cataloger_name":["Kate,Moffatt"],"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":["Poetry Festival in Bisbee: Michael McClure reading and interview at Cochise Fine Arts in Arizona, 1980 #616"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_title_note":["Tape reads \"Micheal McClure Bisbee Poetry Festival 1980 Reading\" and \"Cochise Fine Arts, PO Box 1783 Bisbee, Ariz. 85603\""],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["McClure, Michael"],"creator_names_search":["McClure, Michael"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/71493269\",\"name\":\"McClure, Michael\",\"dates\":\"1932-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1980],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/7870/Reading in BC_MsC199_616.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"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\":\"616-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:31:08\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"27.8 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\":\"616-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:31:36\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"29.6 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\":\"1980\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6833664\",\"venue\":\"Cochise Fine Arts\",\"notes\":\"latitude and latitude of Bisbee have been entered since the exact location can't be found \",\"address\":\"Bisbee, Arizona\",\"latitude\":\"31.4489\",\"longitude\":\"109.9283\"}]"],"Address":["Bisbee, Arizona"],"Venue":["Cochise Fine Arts"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\t\n\t\t001\tIntroduction of Michael McClure reading from “Anti-chamber & other poems”, as well even more recent work\n\t\t012\tMichael McClure [sound quality is poor]\n\t\t024\t“I love to think of the red purple rose…”\n\t\t035\t“How sweet to…”\n\t\t042\tMcClure introduces next poem\n\t\t046\t“The world is ours…”\n\t\t056\t“My mother said to me…”\n\t\t065\tA Poem for Lawrence Ferlinghetti “Listen Lawrence…”\n\t\t120\tIntroduction to the next set of poems\n\t\t133\t“Watching the Vulture”\n\t\t147\t“Love me for the fool…”\n\t\t170\t“The Blacked In One”\n\t\t182\t“To the Drive-in Teller at the Bank”\n\t\t196\tTape breaks into “Listen Lawrence” halfway through the poem\n\t\t209\tIntroduction to the next few pieces which are excerpts from a larger work. “I know nothing about boats…”\n\t\t260\t“We are baby locks…”\n\t\t322\t“Politics starts with the barrel of a gun”\n\t\t338\t“Cousin to the…”\n\t\t345\tIntroduction to the next poem, something to do with gravity, most of it is inaudible\n\t\t358\t“How beautiful gravity is”\n\t\t377\t“I am the dead coyote on the…”\n\t\t388\tSound cuts off\n\t\t409\tSide One ends\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t001\tIntroduction to the next poem, written after a trip to Disneyland\n\t\t005\t“How sad the silhouettes…”\n\t\t014\t“Hymn to Quanam Goddess of Mercy”\n\t\t049\t“Sure, Let me Burst Again”\n\t\t068\tSome short poems\n\t\t075\tThe rose is a pink yellow…”\n\t\t080\t“I work with the shape…”\n\t\t088\tThe interview with McClure appears to commence.  Poet as an evolutionary scientist.  McClure reads from a poem on the subject.  The conversation continues along such lines\n\t\t149\tThe subject of Animals & their place in McClure’s work\n\t\t210\tA discussion of McClure’s Japanese tastes & sensibilities\n\t\t265\tConversation concludes with applause\n\t\t412\tSide two ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Sound quality for reading is poor; sound quality for interview (which starts partway through side 2) is excellent.\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670555070234625,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.437Z","score":3.882548}]