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This (present) reading will be just poems from the past year.”\n\t\t135\t“Every poem I write is an attempt to change the world…”\n\t\t197\t“If you have to go out in the cold, dress yourself in this poem first: warm arm, warm arm…”\n\t\t233\t“The second poem I’ll read is a collaboration between Brett and I, done under the pseudonym of “R. 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Feeling the slope of your back…”\n\t\t060\t“The green Devon sea, wide against the beach…”\n\t\t068\t“This is the beginning of… a work in progress.  The first section is called ‘Homes without hands or hands without homes’…”\n\t\t077\t“It starts with a quote…” (Explains the origin of the poems in a found book about rose galls)\n\t\t093\t“The book fell open at a section on rose galls and what ensued…”\n\t\t097\t“When the synops rosa deposits her eggs upon the rose…”\n\t\t101\t“say I am concealed…”\n\t\t108\t“Natural powers are always adjusted to the work which their possessors have to perform…”\n\t\t115\t“Before me, I watch the features of your face…”\n\t\t119\t“Blood seeps out onto the surface of a gall…”\n\t\t125\t“The cells are of different sizes…”\n\t\t130\t“That first time, your touch cut like a knife…”\n\t\t139\t“In many of the cells, the perfect insect may be found…”\n\t\t143\t“Upon the surface of his skin, the slow incision of a wound with perfect intent…”\n\t\t153\t“That’s the end of the first section.  The second section is called “Fragments of a churinga’s songs””\n\t\t176\tA quote: “The second self is the individual’s guardian angel, but if made angry by neglect, it can also be his enemy, causing illness…  The churinga accompanies him throughout life, warns him of the dangers threatening him, and helps him to escape them…”\n\t\t188\t“The opening section is a found poem…a description of an initiation rite in a New Guinea tribe…”\n\t\t204\t“This section is extracts from a journal while I was staying in the Hebrides… interposed with psalms…”\nOne\tRight\t222\t“Out of west Linton, on the road to Peebles, I…”\n\t\t227\t“Want to forget…”\n\t\t231\t“Watches yesterday.  A heron fishing…”\n\t\t234\t“Someone is singing in the wings…”\n\t\t240\t“Victim song”\n\t\t247\t“At dusk, I walked among the high old hedges and narrow pass of Dunvegin castle…”\n\t\t253\t“Think/of all the lies we told…”\n\t\t256\t“Yesterday, I talked to Alastair, who built the Golden Hill House…”\n\t\t260\t“Churinga song II”\n\t\t267\t“A woman sits under a naked electric lightbulb…”\n\t\t272\t“Mist.  Low.  Scattered…”\n\t\t279\t“The Sciani (?) Islands lie to my left…”\n\t\t287\t“Churinga, sometimes you are here…”\n\t\t292\t“Off and on in the distance, the lighthouse…”\n\t\t298\t“Rain falls…”\n\t\t303\t“That is the end of the second section”\n\t\t307\t“Facing you two”\n\t\t317\t“So where did it come from…”\n\t\t323\t“I have not completely made my exit from her mouth…”\n\t\t330\t“The third section is … a letter I wrote to four friends when I came back to Toronto from the Hebrides…”\n\t\t335\t“When I walked through the pasture I…”\n\t\t347\t“When I offer myself to another I don’t know what I give...”\n\t\t352\t“I went to visit my uncle…”\n\t\t356\t“It is impossible to return…”\n\t\t365\t“Part of me is my uncle…”\n\t\t372\t“When you asked me what I knew, I shouldn’t have told you…”\n\t\t380\t“I walked down the street…”\n\t\t388\t“And on his face, the question of a child…”\n\t\t395\t“I watch your face/turn into a thousand other faces…”\n\t\t401\t“When I walked through the pasture I didn’t need a mirror…”\n\t\t407\t“The next section is the fourth section.  I don’t have a title for it.”\n\t\t411\t“A found poem… from the Shaga tribe in New Guinea…” (“if you dare to tell anyone of the secret of men…”)\n\t\t426\t“All through high school/she had a fear of being stabbed…”\n\t\t429\t“When I was young, I devised a ceremony…”\n\t\t434\t“Think that to start, I thought there was no difference…”\n\t\t439\t“I remember the toughest guy in our public school…”\n\t\t447\t“The story”\n\t\t453\t“Where I spent time with men, I felt young and free…”\n\t\t461\t“On returning to the village after their initiation rites…”\n\t\t482\t“A black moon gleams through the trees of reason…”\n\tRight\t487\t“In the morning the men came to him…”\n\t\t494\t“We talked, and there were no answers…”\n\t\t500\t“I, also”\n\t\t507\t“A black moon gleams through the trees of reason…”\n\t\t522\t“No man walks alone on this planet…”\n\t\t536\t“That’s the end of the last section that I have…”\n\t\t540\t“Chris, Christopher. 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Explains background of “Big things and little things…”, his meeting with Marisol.\n\t\t395\tSpeaks of James Hillman’s Revisioning psychology\n\t\t408\t“It is a scene…”  (Presences, sect 4)\n\t\t573\t“From a piece called Mabel … a kind of homage to Burroughs… (see Mabel : a story, London : Marion Boyars, 1976, p. 151)\n\t\t729\t“Explains…that the kind of women you have in mind are not persons of the town,” (the line is from p. 153)\n\t\t740\t“Think of the good times…” (Mabel, p. 152)\n\t\t1013\tSound ends, side one ends\nTwo\t\t000\tApplause…\n\t\t003\tI want to read the poem that Bob Rose… (printed).  James Hillman… pointed out that the whole sense of image in so-called western cultural patterns is really inhibited… and either moving towards what he calls the Judeo and or Hebraic pattern…monotheistic…or else you move to the Hellenic, which is the pluralistic, many-changing spatial trip, and I would simply opt for the plurality, I suppose, and the most information I have of it, is, like this, you dig:\n\t\t030\t“The plan is the body” (Creeley is reading from a broadside printed by Bob Rose for Prester John, Vancouver, B.C., 1975 – prepared for the occasion of Creeley’s reading at the Western Front.)\n\t\t095\t(Creeley reads from his notebook)\n\t\t112\tSpeaks of Laurie Gilpin, a photographer\n\t\t128\t“Possible statement in novel…”\n\t\t144\tA supper menu\n\t\t153\t“Wake in white-washed simple room in Spain”\n\t\t170\t“Thinking of Joanne Kyger: “These days flooded with preoccupation, mind flooded with mind…” (“I was thinking of a poem of hers called September.”)”\nTwo\t\t180\t“Wind in the wet upper spaces of a tree/yeah/reality’s wet.”\n\t\t184\t“In the forest”\n\t\t190\t“People…”\n\t\t197\t“Happy home”\n\t\t201\t“Bobbie’s got one here: ‘Like this one.  This is a beautiful one.’”\n\t\t204\t“Like a like…”\n\t\t205\t“Come here moon…”\n\t\t216\t“I don’t like one word poems…”\n\t\t217\t“It hurts to have to hear you…”\n\t\t224\t“Forgotten it all…”\n\t\t231\t“Why Dorothy’s wise…”\n\t\t233\t“Something doesn’t necessarily happen after something”\n\t\t237\t“Music…”\n\t\t250\t“Secrets”\n\t\t256\t“Thinking of sea” (or C?)\n\t\t265\t“World” (“a root in Wir eld… a human age”)\n\t\t279\t“To be alive is to be in each place come to…”\n\t\t296\t(Interrupts: “I’m just reading some recent poems…”)\n\t\t297\t“A lot of it’s here”\n\t\t298\t“So”\n\t\t305\t“Stan Brakhage apropos himself in Naropa scene, Boulder: ‘I was their token local.’”\n\t\t309\t“Bobbie’s phrase apropos LeRoi Jones: ‘AKA Baraka’”\n\t\t314\t“Mean”\n\t\t334\t“Here is a poem that I like that was written when Warren (Tallman) was happily down in Bolinas…”  (speaks of the artist John Chamberlain and invitation of Houston Art Gallery to R.C. to come read on occasion of John Chamberlain’s opening there.  Reads:)\n\t\t386\t“For John”\n\t\t478\t“I’ll read the other poem to him (Chamberlain)…”\n\t\t501\tSpeaks of Bob Grenier, a poet who works in word spaces and patterns, …”He did for me a generous job; he did a Selected poems for me that I couldn’t truly do myself, and this is hopefully coming out sometime this next year (1976)… He would not put a poem in, like “I propose to you a body bleached…” He would include this poem”:\n\t\t550\t“The box” from Words, rpt. Selected poems, New York : Scribner’s p. 76\n\t\t569\t“This book is one Chamberlain called – he said, ‘You’re busy measuring everything.’  It’s… a book that’s persistently involved with measure I’ll read you one that has literally to do with measure, called “Distance.”  It has to do with a photograph by Harry Callahan…”\n\t\t597\t“Distance” from Words, rpt. 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