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Crow served as inspiration during difficult writing period. Robert Kroetsch prefers magic realism instead of documentary style, finds documentary unnatural to him “because I don’t believe documents are documents, that they themselves are another version of unreality or imagination if you will.” Versions of narrative operating through time, recovery of intermingling voices.\n- Stories of family are important, especially relationships with uncles and aunts because there is a necessary closeness and separation (don’t have the binding structures found with parents).\n- Creative strategies: resisting authorized versions of Alberta (historical, political), recovering personal experience but mediated by words (oral tradition). A few words recover an entire narrative pattern.\n- Interruption and intervention: question of “what is a reader?” The reader has enormous body of narrative in their head which can be tapped into by process of intervention.\n- Influences: earlier texts use myths/stories. In Crow, attempt to let multiple narratives speak at once without privileging one. i.e. the perception of crows as negative in Western world, but is a smart, positive, trickster figure in Indigenous epistemologies.\n- Story doesn’t exist until it is in the reader’s mind? Robert Kroetsch has abandoned romantic notion of the writer/artist. Meta-textualism. \n- Brian: post-modern privileges the reader, reader is invited into the text. Robert Kroetsch: It is difficult and dangerous to be the reader, because reading is no longer a controlled experience, but allows for the reader to explore. There is a sense of play or discovery.\n- Structuring narrative through love and death. Behind comedy there is a notion of great mystery.\n- Plays with the stereotype of active male and passive female\n- The responsibilities of the writer, reader, and critic: It is a gift exchange that goes both ways between reader and writer. The critic extends the reading. Brian: Notion of ideal reading assumes ideal reader. Robert Kroetsch: agrees and resists the ideal reading, through the gift exchange has surrendered himself to the reader. There is no ideal context for reading.\n- Robert Kroetsch writes poetry by resisting poetry. Deprivileging the word and the role of the writer. An interest in language. Poetry is concerned with more than words (he compares this to prose). It is not because of the high rhetoric, but the greater ability to focus on the language.\n- What parts of Crow are distinctly Canadian? Recovering the vitality of the local; skepticism of the “universal.”"],"contents":["Robert Kroetsch and Brian Edwards\n[00:00:01] \nDiscuss What the Crow Said (General Publishing, 1978) [as part of a course “Literary Processes” through Deakin University].\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:28:55]\nMentions \"Spending the Morning on the Beach\". \nRobert Kroetsch  \n[00:42:00]\nReads \"What the Crow Said\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Kroetsch, What the Crow Said (1978)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558517952512,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.4550953},{"id":"8338","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Spoken Word CD. 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Aritha van Herk introduces.\n- [00:06:00] Writing poetry again through the story of Rita K.\n- “Hornbook #15”: question of identity through place – fallacy of the isolation of writers. Two sentence line format.\n- “Winnipeg”: when writing poetry listening to the speech unit, and therefore the body writes the poem in a sense. Here he is intentionally writing way beyond the breath statement.\n- “New”: Fascination with the Orpheus story. A quest for the new world. Calgary as a part of this dream or illusion.\n- “Oviedo”: Three mound poems which Rita organizes her poems into – “The Battle River Mound,” “The Kyoto Mound,” and “The Oviedo Mound”. Question of ‘where does the poem reside?’.\n- Crow: inspired by readings of South American magic realist texts\n- Qs: What do you do when you aren’t feeling inspired to write?\n- Process for writing – going over drafts repeatedly\n- When did he know he wanted to be a writer? At 16, in an English class in Red Deer High School. His English teacher asked if he ever considered being a writer."],"contents":["Aritha Van Herk\nIntroduces Robert Kroetsch to an audience of creative writing students at Pages book store.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:06:44]\nReads \"Hornbook #15\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:09:55]\nReads \"Winnipeg is a Kind of a News\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:12:50]\nReads \"The New World and Finding It\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:21:20]\nReads \"The RK Hornbooks: Retractions\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:25:27]\nReads \"Hornbook B\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:27:05]\nReads \"Hornbook E: Against Reason\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:27:35]\nReads \"Hornbook H\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:28:04]\nReads \"The Oviedo Mound\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:31:07]\nReads \"What the Crow Said\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558523195395,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.4550953}]