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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Robin Blaser: Sacred Geography Series, Simon Fraser University, Oct. 29, 1976

Date: 1976-10-29
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: COMMENTS ith Blaser's voice in mid-sentence. References to Olson + nature of the follow. :ask of the poet, the greater context. Once this has been understood one ;ciate texts that stand outside their mere contemporary context, the a poetic text. y "consciousness of language", Blaser agrees that the Romantics started rds the notion of language but he thinks it was individuals such as jan to comprehend and appreciate the polar relationships of poetry with s of the nature of language.…

Robin Blaser: Sacred Geography Series, Simon Fraser University, Sept.13, 1976

Date: 1976-09-13
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: 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, with reference to Charles Olson . Group discussion on students intellectual merits The. group wade…