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Date:
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May 18, 2000 |
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Location:
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The ODC Theater |
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Length:
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Tape Quality:
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fair |
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Language:
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English |
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Use Policy:
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available |
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Content:
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In a reading celebrating his 75th birthday, poet Robin
Blaser reads Robert Duncan's "Dante Sonnet" and Jack Spicer's "Buster
Keaton Rides Again." From The Holy Forest, Blaser then reads "The Ruler,"
"Smoking Poem," "Image-Nation 11: The Poesis," "Image-Nation 21," and
"Image-Nation 25: Nothing Distinguishes." From his keynote address at
a recent Dante conference, he goes on to detail ways in which poetics
work as Purgatorio. Then, based around a reading from his original libretto
for the opera "The Last Supper" (written for music by British composer
Harrison Birtwistle), Blaser closes with a one-man synopsis of the opera.
Steve Dickison introduces Blaser.
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