May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009
Further information about Robin Blaser is available from Miriam Nichols, Professor of American Literature, University College of the Fraser Valley
Photo credit: © 2002 Peter Quartermain
POETRY
The Moth Poem (San Francisco: White Rabbit
Press, 1964)
Les Chimères: Translations of Nerval for Fran Herndon
(San Francisco: Open Space, 1969)
Cups (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1968)
Image Nations 1-12 & The Stadium of the Mirror (London: Ferry Press, 1974)
Image Nations 13 &
14, Luck Unluck Oneluck, Sky-stone, Suddenly, Gathering (North Vancouver:
Cobblestone Press, 1975)
Harp Trees (Vancouver: Sun Stone House & Cobblestone
Press, 1977)
Image Nation 15: The Lacquerhouse (Vancouver: W. Hoffer,
1981)
Syntax
(Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983)
The Faerie Queene and The Park (Vancouver: Fissure
Books, 1987)
Pell Mell (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1988)
The Holy Forest (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1993)
Nomad
(Vancouver: Slug Press, 1995)
Wanders, with Meredith Quartermain (Vancouver: Nomados,
2002)
Jonathan Cross, Introduction to The Last Supper, Compact Disk (Glyndebourne Productions Ltd, 2000)
The Holy Forest, with Roy Kiyooka, Compact Disk issued with Collapse no. 1 (1995)
"The Fire," in The Poetics of the New American Poetry,
edited by Donald Allen and Warren Tallmen (New York: Grove Press, 1974)
"The Metaphysics of
Light," Capilano Review 6 (1974) [transcription from Astonishments edited by
Daphne Marlatt]
"The Practice of Outside" in The Collected Books of
Jack Spicer, edited by Robin Blaser (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975)
Afterword in Mary Butts, Imaginary Letters (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1979)
Introduction in George Bowering, Particular Accidents: Selected Poems (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1980)
"The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead" Line no. 2 (1983)
"My Vocabulary Did This To Me," Acts 6 (1987)
Introduction in Louis Dudek, Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1988)
"Poetry and Positivisms," in Silence, the Sacred and the Word, edited by E. D. Blodgett and Harold Coward (Calgary: Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1989)
"The Elf of It" in Robert Duncan: Drawings and Decorated Books, edited by Christopher Wagstaff (San Francisco: Rose Books, 1992)
"The Recovery of the Public World" and "Among Afterthoughts on This Occasion," in Reflections on Cultural Policy, Past, Present and Future, edited by Blaser, Evan Alderson, and Harold Coward (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1993)
"Here Lies the Woodpecker Who Was Zeus," in A Sacred Quest, edited by Christopher Wagstaff (Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson, 1995)
Preface to the Early Poems of Robert Duncan (Toronto & Buffalo: Shuffaloff, 1995)
"Thinking about Irreparables, a talk," Raddle Moon 18 [2000?]
"The Irreparable,"
a lecture given at Temple University, Philadelphia and University of Maine
at Orono, October 2002
Pacific Nation, no 1 (1967)
Pacific Nation, no 2 (1969) with Stan Persky
The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975)
Mary Butts, Imaginary Letters (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1979)
George Bowering, Particular Accidents: Selected Poems (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1980)
Art and Reality: A Casebook of Concern, with Rob Dunham (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1986)
Louis Dudek, Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1988)
Reflections on Cultural Policy, Past, Present and Future, with Evan Alderson, and Harold Coward (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1993)
"Artaud on Nerval" with Richard Ross, Pacific Nation no. 1 (1967)
Les Chimères: Translations of Nerval for Fran Herndon (San Francisco: Open Space, 1969)
"Pindar's Seventh Olympic Hymn,"
Caterpillar 12 (July 1970)
The Last Supper, Music by Sir Harrison Birtwistle (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 2000)
"Apparitors," in A Poetry Folio (San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964)
"Kimm," Broadside (Prince George, B.C.: Caledonia Writing Series, 1977)
"Of is the word love without the initial consonant," Broadside (Vancouver: Slug Press, 1979)
"Hello!," Sulfur 37 (Fall 1995)
"Nomad," Sulfur 37 (Fall 1995)
"Shipped Shape" West Coast Line 36 35/3 (Winter 2001-02)
"The Truth is Laughter 18" West Coast Line 36 35/3 (Winter 2001-02)
"The Truth is Laughter 19" West Coast Line 36 35/3 (Winter 2001-02)
"The Truth is Laughter 20" West Coast Line 36 35/3 (Winter 2001-02)
"The Truth is Laughter 21" West Coast Line 36 35/3 (Winter 2001-02)
"Mind Canaries," in Christos Dikeakos (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1986)
CORRESPONDENCE
"A Correspondence," Capilano Review 2:17/18 [A Festschrift for Robin] (1996) [responses to questions by Lisa Robertson]
Charles Olson-Robin Blaser Correspondence, edited by Miriam Nichols and Ralph Maud, forthcoming in the Minutes of the Charles Olson Society (spring 2003)
Assistant Librarian in Cataloguing, Widener Library, Harvard (1955-1959)
English Department, Simon Fraser
University (1966-1986)
Naropa University Summer Writing
Program (1995, 2000 inter alia)
Recovery of the Public World Conference, Vancouver (1995)
University of California at Davis, 70th Birthday Celebration (1995)
Reading Tour of English Cities, with Ed Dorn (1998)
San Francisco Poetry Centre, 75th Birthday Celebration (2000)
International Festival of Poetry at Coimbra, Portugal (2000)
Writer in Residence, Temple University (October 2002)
University of California, Berkeley (1944-1955)
Date of Birth: 18 May 1925, Denver Colorado
Robin Blaser died in Vancouver on May 7, 2009