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.

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Robin Blaser reading at SFU Gallery, Burnaby, B.C., Aug 14, 1981 add note: introduced by Roy Miki and George Bowering

Date: 1981-08-14
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Roy Miki introduces George Bowering George Bowering introduces Robin Blaser Robin Blaser reads from Syntax "The truth is laughter" "Dreams - Jan. 1981" "The truth is laughter" "Tombstone" "The truth is laughter" "Image Nation 15" "Image Nation 16 - Anaclytic variations" "The truth is laughter" "Alert d'or" "The truth is laughter" "The ceremony" "Dreams, April 1981" "Diary, April 11, 1981" "The truth is laughter" "Occasional thought" "Image Nation 17 - Opercula" "Graffito" "The mystic east" "…

Robin Blaser reading at Sir George Williams University, Montreal, P.Q., circa 1969 add note: introduced by Roy Kiyooka

Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Introduction by Roy Kiyooka Prefatory remarks by Blaser The Hunger Sound from Boston Poems 1956 Cups Reading from the essay "The Fire" Reading from The Holy Forest Section The drive to the spring mountains . . . The Prince Love Song Translation First Tale, Over Second Tale, Return At Last Aphrodite of The Leaves Translator-A Tale A Gift-Homage To Robert Creeley Bottom's Dream The Finder Merlin Image-Nations 6-Marriage Poem for Galdys Hindmarch&Cliff ?

Robin Blaser reading at University of British Columbia, Feb, 10, 1966 add note: introduced by Warren Tallman

Date: 1966-02-10
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Introduction "Cups" One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twel ve "The Park": "Cleo on the Section Gang. "The whir of traffic..." "The soft step..." "He follows..." "Around us..." "She went down. "She beat on the floor..." "She bent over..." "Sights float..." "True and false..." "The idiot..." "Tincans smashed..." "The oath between us..." "From a high shelf..." "The Faerie Queen": "An appearance" "Metamorphoses" "So" "From a Fortune Cookie" "The Sphinx" "For Gustave Moreau" "…

Robin Blaser reading at Vancouver Art Gallery, 1982

Date: 1982-11-03
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Continuation of Blaser's reading of his essay "The Violets" . on Charles Olson and A.N. Whitehead. Note: A version of this paper can be found in Lines 2, fall 1983 This is a problem of methodology..." (Lines 2, p.87) "His spelling in Greek letters of the word chaos in interesting..." (p.88) "Olson is a careful and poised modern mind, but with this interest in the archaic he follows through on an intuition that has coloured the arts of our century..." (p.90) Blaser ends his lecture by.reading…

Robin Blaser reading at Vancouver Art Gallery, 1982

Date: 1982-11-03
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Robin Blaser reads his paper, "The Violets: Charles Olson and ' Alfred North Whitehead (a cosmological reading of a cosmology)" Note: A version of this essay can be found in the journal Line, number two, fall 1983 Blaser introduces "The Violets"; the translation of Whitehead into poetry Preface to the paper: a "collage" of quotations Quotation from John RusseVs The Meanings of Modern Art . ("Art is there to make sense of the World...") 7 Quotation from Philip Rief.f from Triumph of the…