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Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Diane di Prima reading her poetry in [Vancouver?], 1966 or 1967 #697"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["di Prima, Diane","Tallman, Warren"],"creator_names_search":["di Prima, Diane","Tallman, Warren"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/83981636\",\"name\":\"di Prima, Diane\",\"dates\":\"1934-\",\"notes\":\"Name misspelled as \\\"De Prima\\\" on J-card\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\"Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994 \",\"notes\":\"Warren Tallman makes an introduction for Diane Di Prima\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1966],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/5905/Reading in BC_MsC199_697.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"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\":\"697-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:41:53\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"40.9 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\":\"697-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:34\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"29.8 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\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1966\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date indicated as tentative on the J-card.\",\"source\":\"J-card\"},{\"date\":\"1967\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date indicated as tentative on the J-card.\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1852574\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Location indicated as tentative on the J-card. It's just a guessed location \",\"address\":\"[Vancouver, BC, Canada?]\",\"latitude\":\"49.2575\",\"longitude\":\"-123.1142\"}]"],"Address":["[Vancouver, BC, Canada?]"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\t\n\t\t010\tWarren Tallman makes an introduction for Diane Di Prima\n\t\t020\tDi Prima says she will begin with a recent piece, called “Hymn”\n\t\t076\tEnd of “Hymn”\n\t\t082\tDi Prima now reads “Song for Spring Equinox”\n\t\t109\tEnd of “Song for Spring Equinox”\n\t\t120\tDi Prima talks about “American-Political Oriented Poems”, and her reasons for them\n\t\t138\tDi Prima reads “Goodbye Nkrumah”\n\t\t170\tEnd of “Goodbye Nkrumah”\n\t\t177\tDi Prima reads “Ode to Keats” \n\t\t238\tEnd of “Ode to Keats”\n\t\t244\tDi Prima relates her experiences living at Timothy Leary’s estate for 3 or 4 months\n\t\t256\tDi Prima reads “A Counterspell to Millbrook, First Day of Winter”\n\t\t281\tEnd of “A Counterspell to Millbrook, First Day of Winter”\n\t\t287\tDi Prima reads “In Memory of My First Chapatis”\n\t\t300\tEnd of “In Memory of My First Chapatis”\n\t\t313\tDi Prima reads “The Yeoman of the Guard”\n\t\t322\tEnd of “The Yeoman of the Guard”\n\t\t325\tDi Prima reads “The Beach”\n\t\t337\tEnd of “The Beach”\n\t\t340\tDi Prima reads “The Jungle”\n\t\t384\tEnd of “The Jungle”\n\t\t386\tEnd of Side One\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t010\tDi Prima reads “First Snow, Kerhonkson”\n\t\t026\tEnd of “First Snow, Kerhonkson”\n\t\t032\tDi Prima discusses her time at the New York Poets Theatre\n\t\t043\tDi Prima reads “Theatre Poem #1”\n\t\t056\tEnd of “Theatre Poem #1”\n\t\t059\tNow she reads “Theatre Poems #4 and #5”\n\t\t083\tEnd of “Theatre Poems #4 and #5”\n\t\t101\tDi Prima reads “Combination Theatre Poem and Birthday Poem for Ten People”\n\t\t184\tEnd of “Combination…”\n\t\t192\tDi Prima reads “Buddhist New Year Song”\n\t\t212\tEnd of “Buddhist New Year Song”\n\t\t220\tDi Prima reads “Note to John Wieners”\n\t\t230\tEnd of “Note to John Wieners”\n\t\t239\tDi Prima reads “To the Unnamed Buddhist Nun Who Burned Herself to Death on the Night of June 3, 1966”\n\t\t246\tEnd of “To the Unnamed Buddhist Nun…”\n\t\t261\tAnother political poem, “Rant, from a Cool Place”\n\t\t294\tEnd of “Rant, from a Cool Place”\n\t\t298\tDi Prima reads “Ode to Elegance”\n\t\t325\tEnd of “Ode to Elegance”\n\t\t326\tEnd of tape\n"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553746931715,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.173Z","score":4.9116282}]