[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Robert Duncan.

Recorded at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. from July 24 to August 16, 1963 by Fred Wah on a 7 inch, 4 track, Sarkes reel-to-reel tape.

Duncan reads poems from The opening of the field (1960), Roots and branches (1964), and Bending the bow (1968) and lectures intermittently.

Robert Duncan.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1963

Sound recording

PCF008

Disc 1.The question --The structure of rime IX --The structure of rime X --Ingmar Bergman's Seventh seal --Apprehensions --Come, let me free myself --Risk --The structure of rime XVI --The structure of rime XVII --The structure of rime XVIII --Osiris and Set --Two presentations --A song of the old order --A country wife's song --A set of romantic hymns. --Disc 2.Sonnet 1 --Sonnet 2 --Sonnet 3 --Sonnet 4 --A country wife's song (from A play with Masques) --A poem beginning with a line by Pindar --The continent. --Disc 3.lecture --Often I am permitted to return to a meadow. --Disc 4.lecture --Risk (selection) --The continent (early version).

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