Research Catalog

Title

Poetry speaks [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

2002.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
• Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967.
• Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
• Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971.
• Collins, Billy
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
• Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
• Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014.
• Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
• Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997.
• Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
• Hayden, Robert Earl
• Paschen, Elise
• Cronson, Mary Sharp
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (78 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program is a companion to the publication Poetry speaks: hear great poets read their work from Tennyson to Plath, which includes texts and audio recordings of poets reciting their work. The program begins with recordings of Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, and W. H. Auden. After some introductory remarks by Poetry speaks co-editor Elise Paschen, an Ogden Nash recording is followed by speaker Billy Collins, who discusses Nash and then recites several of his own poems. After the Gwendolyn Brooks recordings are played, Sonia Sanchez provides a remembrance and appreciation of Brooks, recites more of Brooks' poetry, and reads some of her own work. Following the recording of Walt Whitman's America, speaker Galway Kinnell elaborates on the recording's uncertain provenance, reads Jorge Luis Borges' poem about Whitman, Camden, 1892, and recites his own poem When the towers came down. The program concludes with recordings of Denise Levertov, Robert Frost, and Robert Hayden.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 185.

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

• Kinnell, Galway, 1927-
• Poetry
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
• Oral interpretation of poetry
• Collins, Billy
• Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971
• Video
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-
• Readings

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Readings.

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on April 15, 2002.

Funding (note)

• With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Contents

Poetry recording content: The Negro speaks of rivers / written and recited by Langston Hughes -- One perfect rose / written and recited by Dorothy Parker -- If I could tell you / written and recited by W. H. Auden -- I do, I will, I have / written and recited by Ogden Nash -- A song in the front yard / written and recited by Gwendolyn Brooks -- We real cool / written and recited by Gwendolyn Brooks -- America / written by Walt Whitman ; recited by unknown (possibly Walt Whitman) -- The secret / written and recited by Denise Levertov -- The silken tent / written and recited by Robert Frost -- Those winter Sundays / written and recited by Robert Hayden.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1188

OCLC

100948623

Title

Poetry speaks [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2002.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 185.

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Speakers: Billy Collins, Sonia Sanchez, and Galway Kinnell. Moderator: Elise Paschen.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on April 15, 2002.

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Added Author

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Collins, Billy. Speaker

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- Speaker

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. America.

Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014. Speaker

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Hayden, Robert Earl. Author in quotations or text abstracts

Paschen, Elise. Moderator

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1188