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Lawrence Ferlinghetti : beat legend / Contemporary Poetry Archives, Stone Soup poets ; director, Julie Stone.
LIBRA DVD 025 257
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. These are my rivers, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container spine: Beat legend : Ferlinghetti
- Ferlinghetti : beat legend
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thin Air Video, [2006]
- System Details:
- Recorded DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Ferlinghetti founded City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and press, which helped change American literature with publications such as Allen Ginsberg's Howl. This video shows Ferlinghetti performing at the 25th Anniversary of Boston's Stone Soup Poets in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1993. He reads from his collection of poems, These are my rivers.
- Contents:
- The sea and ourselves
- Buddha in the woodpile
- The uses of poetry
- Poet as fisherman
- Queens Cemetery, setting sun
- Sherman's march
- Canticle of Jack Kerouac
- Tunisian nostalgia
- Roman moon
- Nicaragua
- Deflowering
- Ascending over Ohio
- Elegy on the death of Kenneth Patchen
- He with the beating wings
- Populist manifesto
- Coney Island of the mind (excerpt).
- Participant:
- Introducer: Jack Powers.
- Credits:
- Director, Julie Stone, editor, Mitch Corber.
- OCLC:
- 71291581
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