Audio CD or Audio cassette written and read by Robert Briggs, with music by J. Stuart Fessant.
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Briggs, a poet from Oregon, was formerly a bookseller in Greenwich Village and North Beach, active in the jazz and poetry scenes of the 1950s. Here, he performs a delightfully personal monologue that is part memoir, part scholarly appreciation. Setting the initial tone, a listener hears cool cafe jazz, written and performed on tenor saxophone by collaborator J. Stuart Fessant. Briggs begins with a philosophical rumination on the power of poetryA and its audience's lasting dedication. Then he tells about his own life as a Depression-era child from Omaha who traveled America, "on the road without knowing it." A natural raconteur and teacher, he gently provides a history of the poets who inspired the Beats: T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes and others. From there, he reads seminal works of the 1950s from the likes of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, LeRoi Jones and Allen Ginsberg. He ends with brief selections from his own prose-oriented poetry, capping off a highly individualistic and heartfelt program. (Mar.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A delightful personal monologue...part memoir, part scholarly appreciation...a highly individualistic and heartfelt program." -- Publisher's Weekly, March 1, 1999
"Mixing his own realities and memories of a lifetime absorbing the Beats and those who came before them... Briggs recalls and celebrates... his history of an alternative poetics... This CD has fallen so unexpectedly from the Oregon sky and should be sought immediately." -- London's Beat Scene No.33
"The sense of personal involvement makes it very exciting and convincing - an invigorating gallop through modern poetry." -- Colin Wilson, correspondence with RB
"Mixing his own realities and memories of a lifetime absorbing the Beats and those who came before them... Briggs recalls and celebrates... his history of an alternative poetics... This CD has fallen so unexpectedly from the Oregon sky and should be sought immediately." -- London's Beat Scene No.33
"The sense of personal involvement makes it very exciting and convincing - an invigorating gallop through modern poetry." -- Colin Wilson, correspondence with RB
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This review is from: Poetry and the 1950s: Homage to the Beat Generation (Audio CD)
This is an interesting, engaging resource for teachers in particular. It's sometimes difficult to get high school students to understand what the Beat poets were trying to capture. "Poetry and the 1950s" gets to the heart of the matter by focusing on historical context of this group of poets and by discussing particular poets and poems.
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