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1 videodisc (20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Blending daguerreotypes, paintings, manuscripts, excerpts from Dickinson's letters, and readings from nearly a dozen of her poems, this program presents the biography of one of America's most unique and influential voices in poetry.
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1 videodisc (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The documentary captures a raucous night of drinking and talking about sex, literature, childhood, and humanity with the cult writer Charles Bukowski in 1981. It is based on a video interview conducted by producer and journalist Silvia Bizio with Bukowski and his soon-to-be wife Linda at their home in San Pedro, California. The interview was shot on U-matic tapes, which have been digitized and edited along with new shots in Super 8 of scenes of Los...
5) Sylvia
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Sylvia Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married...
6) Summertime
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
7) Howl
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Franco delivers a career-defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes *Howl*, and must contend with attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) during *Howl’s* bizarre obscenity trial. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Film...
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Patti Smith is a renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Her music, poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. Traces Patti's punk-poet roots through the trials of daily life and untimely deaths that have formed her life and art. Touches on her early days in New York City and includes the people dearest to her, her family, and the political causes she champions.
9) Walt Whitman
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1 videodisc (21 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a unique literary biography, tracing Whitman's childhood, various careers, and the evolution of the masterpiece that proved his lifelong work, Leaves of Grass. A collage of photos, paintings, and manuscripts accompanies excerpts of letters from Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as readings from sections of Leaves of Grass.
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