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Beat legend Gregory Corso / Thin Air Video.
LIBRA DVD 025 259
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Beat legends
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corso, Gregory.
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Gregory Corso
- Beat legend Corso
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Thin Air Video, [2005?]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Corso, a mystic and reveler in pure poesia, is known for breaking with current verse conventions to give free rein to language. In this film the bard invents as he goes, energetically offering facts and footnotes, allusion and illusion, as he weaves poetic threads together.
- Contents:
- Flu ramblings '91
- Wreck of the Nordling
- Amnesia in Memphis
- Puma and Chapultepec Zoo
- Botticelli's spring
- [Socrates and the Gods]
- [Sartre vs. Christ]
- 30-year dream
- Proximity
- Prophesy 1958
- When a boy I monitored the stairs
- Getting to the poem
- Spirit
- Arrogant poem
- The whole mess, almost.
- Participant:
- Author and speaker, Gregory Corso.
- Credits:
- Videography, Mitch Corber.
- Notes:
- "Videotaped live at New York University."--Closing frame.
- "Legendary NYU recital, April '91"--DVD container.
- OCLC:
- 63811661
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