Inaudible voices, something about getting a "copy... in West Vancouver." A man's voice & a woman's voice. The discussion seems to revolve around poetics. The tape covers a university seminar on poetics. The predominant man's voice, whom we assume is the instructor, goes on to warn his student about being too academic+attempting to be too clever in their essays Discussion-on poetic creation,... Show moreInaudible voices, something about getting a "copy... in West Vancouver." A man's voice & a woman's voice. The discussion seems to revolve around poetics. The tape covers a university seminar on poetics. The predominant man's voice, whom we assume is the instructor, goes on to warn his student about being too academic+attempting to be too clever in their essays Discussion-on poetic creation, with reference to Charles Olson . Group discussion on students intellectual merits The. group wade into Olson's "Maximus" poems Discussion of other seminar texts Side'one ends midway through a long-wind sermon on issues the seminar will not address The same voices, all the more difficult to hear properly. Though I did make out something about Olson Quotations from Marx in reference to poetics, its response to standard bougpisos^ literature. The. instructor calls such a view a "cop-out"Control, tradition, & elequence are the standards to be observed . ■ A class discussion that, like most of the tape, is basically inaudible Something about the poetic pitfalls of an addiction to alcohol Tape lapses into almost complete inaudibility Pound, Eliot & Yeats are mentioned t Discussion on 'Yeats' reputation & his own hand in forstering it. From this point onwards the conversation wanders Class dismissed, feet shuffle & chairs are moved about \ Side two ends •*The seminar continues from "617-653, doubtlessly dealing with similar topics in a similar manner. Browse at one's own leisure Show less