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Robin Blaser

Born and raised in the United States, Robin Blaser (1925-2009) was part of the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and the San Francisco poetry communities of the 1960s. In 1966 he took up a position at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he taught for the next 20 years. He became a Canadian citizen in 1972. Blaser was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2005 and in 2008 received the Griffin Poetry Prize for his major work, The Holy Forest.

Headshot of Robin Blaser, a middle-aged white man with white hair and wearing a dark coat.
Robin Blaser. Photographer unknown.

| Recordings

  • Bowering Party Readings (1986)

    This tape consists of an amateur home recording of a private reading among poets and friends hosted by George and Angela Bowering on August 16, 1986. Guest readers include Sharon Thesen and Robin Blaser. Other readers may include Rob Dunham reading Luis Posse’s poems and Dwight Gardiner. The sociality and community-focus of the event is…

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  • Robin Blaser and Meredith Quartermain reading at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre

    Robin Blaser and Meredith Quartermain duet reading at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (now “The Cultch”), 1895 Venables St, East Vancouver, on September 11, 2003.

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    Charles Olson Memorial Poetry Reading

    Writers gather in Vancouver to commemorate the life of U.S.American poet Charles Olson.

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| Remediations

  • The host, curator, and the two special guests.

    S1, Episode 4: Is Robin Here?

    “Is Robin here?” On this episode, we ask what we can “know” about the dynamics of a space through listening. We listen to the “Charles Olson Memorial” recording and talk about mourning, spontaneity, relationships, authority, and poetry recitation.

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| Bibliography

Blaser, Robin. The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser, Revised and Expanded Edition. Ed. Miriam Nichols. University of California Press, 2008.

Nichols, Miriam. A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor. Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.

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