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DVD | ISBN: 978-0-9798401-2-8
Summary
CHICAGO POEMS: POETRY VIDEO consists of 20 short videos, all on characters and places associated with Chicago. Each video is based on a poem read by the author as he celebrates the sights, sounds, and sensations of Chicago, ranging from pizza to Michael Jordan to Al Capone.
The DVD is forty minutes:
Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza
Otis Spann's South Side Piano
Demon Dogs
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
The Water Tower
Soldier Field
Buckingham Fountain
Lincoln Park
Michael Jordan
Introit
Dick Butkus
The Roma Restaurant
The Art Institute
Hyde Park
Carl Sandburg,1878-1967
Richard J. Daley
Frank Lloyd Wright
Four Chicago Windy City Songs
Al Capone - for Wind
Four Chicago Bus Stops: haiku
About the Author
Robert Kirschten, PhD, is the author of James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth: A Reading of the Poems;“Approaching Prayer”: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey; and five books of poems, Old Family Movies, Nighthawks and Irises: Poems about Paintings, Chicago Poems, Looney Tunes: A Comic Book of Poems, and Fribble and Wheeze: a post postmodern Book of Poems.
Kirschten is the editor of Critical Essays on James Dickey, “Struggling for Wings”: The Art of James Dickey, James Dickey: The Selected Poems, and Critical Essays on A.R. Ammons.
He is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing
at Prairie View A&M University.
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Comic Poetry Video
Robert Kirschten, PhD
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Contents:
Scoopy-Boo
Bogey Bear
Slick Draw McFlaw
Highway Hustler
Riley Coyote
Vanilla Gorilla
Getting Rid of Your Bubble Gum
Recovering from Lunch
Burnt Cheese
Trapped in the Car Wash
Losing Your Keys
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poems
The Idiot” and “The Blind Man”
Wassily Kandinsky’s Painting:
Through-Going Line,” 1923
Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Laughing Self-Portrait,” 1663
My Dog Spot
Dinosaur Tracks on the Golf Course
4 Crazy Songs
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DVD | ISBN: 978-0-9798401-3-5
Summary
Poetry Video on Paintings is a 40-minute DVD which combines a performed poems about individual paintings with digital, video dramatizations of the work itself. Works dramatized are by Edward Hopper, William Merritt Chase, Cezanne, van Gogh, Daubigny, and several Eastern scroll and screen painters. The DVD also contains short subjects, including "Garbo Laughing," "Opening a Box of Crackerjacks," "Emmett Kelly (for clowns everywhere)," "Spring Song," and "Ritual."
