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Lawrence Ferlinghetti beat legend
Title
Lawrence Ferlinghetti [videorecording] : beat legend / Contemporary Poetry Archives.
Published
New York : Thin Air Video, c2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Director, Julie Stone, editor, Mitch Corber.
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.
Variant and related titles
Title on container spine: Beat legend : Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti : beat legend
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 29, 2008
Credits
Director, Julie Stone, editor, Mitch Corber.
Performers
Introducer: Jack Powers.
System details note
Recorded DVD.
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).
Subjects
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Contemporary Poetry Archives.
Thin Air Video (Firm)
Stone Soup Poets.
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