An evening with Ed Sanders & the Fugs. Vol. 1 / Thin Air Video.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Olson, Charles, 1910-1970, author.

Sappho, author.

Contributor:

Sanders, Ed, composer, performer, author.

Corber, Mitch, director of photography.

Hamson, Ann, performer.

Fugs (Musical group), performer.

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.). Poetry Project, producer.

Thin Air Video (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Beat legends ; 214.

[Beat legends] ; v. 214

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hoffman, Abbie.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Beats (Persons)--Poetry.

Beats (Persons).

Genre:

Poetry.

Literary readings.

Filmed performances.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Evening with Ed Sanders and the Fugs, Vol. 1

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Thin Air Video, [2006]

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Sanders performs his and others' poetry and music, with the Fugs' tribute to Abbie Hoffman.

Contents:

Sanders solo: Maximus / Charles Olson

The air in the hawk's lung measures our life

Equal to the gods / Sappho

Abbie Hoffman memorial: Ah sunflower; Ooh Abbie (fragment); Protest and survive / Fugs

Archival TV: Abbie down memory lane

Anita Hoffman reminisces

The Fugs reprise: Ooh Abbie (complete)

Coda (Sanders solo recital): The life of Chekhov.

Participant:

Ed Sanders, The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Steven Taylor), and a vocal trio (Ed Sanders, Ann Hamson, Steven Taylor).

Credits:

Video/original poetry video documentation/original camera footage, Mitch Corber.

Notes:

Originally recorded live in New York City: Poetry Project, 1991; St. Marks Poetry Project, 1995.

Series title from Thin Air Video web site.

Aspect ratio 1.33:1.

OCLC:

156912098

Publisher Number:

DVD-214 Thin Air Video

214 Thin Air Video