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Allen Ginsberg, beat legend. Vol. 1 / a video by Mitch Corber.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Corber, Mitch, director, producer, cinematographer, editor.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, performer.
Thin Air Video (Firm), producer, distributor.
Series:
Beat legends
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Ginsberg, Allen.
Poets, American--20th century.
Poets, American.
Genre:
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Other Title:
Beat legend, Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Container title: Ginsberg
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Thin Air Video, [2004]
System Details:
DVD.
digital
optical
video file
Summary:
On this film Ginsberg, the king of hip verse, the poet-guru who ushered in the cultural counterrevolution, unleashes a storm of dream visions and poetic polemics, sometimes accompanied by a mini-pump organ, and bracketed with historical background information.
Contents:
CIA dope calypso
1977 December
Spot anger
Personals ad
To Jack Rabinowitz
May Day 1988
Voice of the bard (to Blake)
Whale's visitation
O plutonium
Hard labor
Velocity of money
Dreamed a long walk with Henry Kissinger
Broken bone blues
I am not
Arguments
Fifth Internationale
On the conduct of the world seeking beauty against government
Sphincter
Cosmopolitan greetings
Graphic winces
Whom bomb?
San Francisco '67
Going to the world of the dead
State of the art, 1989
Europe, who knows?
Why I meditate
Western ballad.
Credits:
Videographer, producer, editor, Mitch Corber.
Notes:
"Poetry Video Archives"--Opening frames.
"Performing at St. Mark's Church, Knitting Factory, Gas station, Continental Divide, Rapp Art Center, 1987-91"--Opening frame.
OCLC:
63814107
Publisher Number:
204 Thin Air Video

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