Robin Blaser Readings

Selected audio recordings of readings of the works of Robin Blaser, poet and SFU professor. The collection also includes special lectures given by Robin Blaser. These recordings come from the SFU Library's Special Collections' Contemporary Literature Collection.

Contributed by Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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Fred Wah and Robin Blaser in Vancouver, circa late 1960s

Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Fred Wah introduces and gives a background to "Mountain". "Mountain". End of "Mountain". Some questions are asked concerning the poem's imagery by Blaser, Warren Tallman, Ralph Maud, and Pauline Wah. R. Blaser begins to read "Particles", a prose piece. Blaser points to two scholars upon whom he is dependent as masters in his life and thought: Ernst Kantorowicz, and Hannah Arenat. Blaser now discusses Hugh Ford's A Poet's War (1965) and Ernst Fischer's The Necessity of Art, a Marxist view of art…

Robin Blaser interviewed re Jack Spicer, June 16, 1970

Date: 1970-06-16
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Interview with Robin Blaser re Jack Spicer

Robin Blaser reading and discussion at home of Fred Wah, South Slocan, B.C., March 1973

Date: 1973-03
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Dicussion continues Blaser reads from Jack Spicer's "After Lorca" "Psychoanalysis, An Elegy" "Song for Bird and Myself" "Poems for the Vancouver Festival" "Poems for Ramparts" "Morphemics" Discussion of 'risk' and 'peril' in the poem The following discussion brings in Pound, Olson, Williams,Creeley Continuation of discussion

Robin Blaser reading and discussion at home of Fred Wah, South Slocan, B.C., March 1973

Date: 1973-03
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Robin Blaser discussing the serial poem and dictation at Fred Wah's house. Discussion continues Blaser reads "The Moth Poem"

Robin Blaser reading and discussion at home of Fred Wah, South Slocan, B.C., March 1973

Date: 1973-03
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Dicussion continues Blaser reads from Jack Spicer's "After Lorca" "Psychoanalysis, An Elegy" "Song for Bird and Myself" "Poems for the Vancouver Festival" "Poems for Ramparts" "Morphemics" Discussion of 'risk' and 'peril' in the poem The following discussion brings in Pound, Olson, Williams,Creeley Continuation of discussion

Robin Blaser reading and discussion at home of Fred Wah, South Slocan, B.C., March 1973

Date: 1973-03
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Robin Blaser discussing the serial poem and dictation at Fred Wah's house. Discussion continues Blaser reads "The Moth Poem"

Robin Blaser reading and discussion at home of Fred Wah, South Slocan, B.C., March 1973

Date: 1973-03
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Dicussion continues Blaser reads from Jack Spicer's "After Lorca" "Psychoanalysis, An Elegy" "Song for Bird and Myself" "Poems for the Vancouver Festival" "Poems for Ramparts" "Morphemics" Discussion of 'risk' and 'peril' in the poem The following discussion brings in Pound, Olson, Williams,Creeley Continuation of discussion

Robin Blaser reading at Capilano College, North Vancouver, B.C., November 13, 1975 add note: introduced by Pierre Coupey

Date: 1975-11-13
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Introduction by Pierre Coupey Prefatory Remarks Windows Revision of Windows It, It, It Holy Forest Section: Translation Winter Words The Story In The Dark The Prince Love The Private Eye Song First Tale, Over Second Tale, Return At Last Aphrodite of the Leaves The City Translator - A Tale Gran A Gift - Homage To Creeley Bottom's Dream The Finder Merlin The Cry of Merlin A Lion continued on next page

Robin Blaser reading at Capilano College, North Vancouver, B.C., November 13, 1975 add note: introduced by Pierre Coupey

Date: 1975-11-13
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Image Nation 13 -Image Nation 14 -Luck, Unluck, One Skystone Suddenly Gathering The Telephone The Face Luck