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The Odyssey and The Divine Comedy as introductions to the long poem form\n\t\t086\tPatterson and Williams’ insistence on local pride\n\t\t114\trelation of American poetry to Kroetsch’s rural Canadian background\n\t\t138\tFred Wah talks about Olson studies in Buffalo, 1964\n\t\t160\tInfluence of Williams\n\t\t189\tThe New Criticism and John Donne as a model of lyric complexity\n\t\t212\tStudy of the long poem as a lesson in construction of the novel\n\t\t289\tDiscovering an old seed catalogue in an archive in Calgary, 1975, and the poem “Seed catalogue”  coming together\n\t\t337\tWhitman’s “Leaves of Grass” as a model, and the method of adding more material\n\t\t361\tIncompletion as an exciting model in [Chancer]*, Spencer & Whitman\n\t\t396\tTape ends\nTwo\t26:25 min\t000\t“Applegarth” publication of The Ledger\n\t\t036\tThe idea of Field notes – notes towards a fiction\n\t\t083\tT.S. Eliot as the failed modernist poet.  Kroetsch’s resistance of the notion of poet in Four Quartets\n\t\t126\tThe Last Phoenicians – non-sacred language\n\t\t157\tIs there a difference between failing and abandoning a poem?\n\t\t188\tKroetsch’s sense of rapport with bp Nichol, Bowering, Marlatt, Wah\n\t\t208\tDifference between Canadian & American Experience.  Canadians live with a fragmentation which can be explored in the long poem\n\t\t257\tLevi-Strauss’ idea of bricaleur, as long-poem poet\n\t\t281\tUse of prose-poem form. 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