United States of Poetry

United States of Poetry

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With over 80 poems to reveal this nation as never before, The United States of Poetry captures the passion, intelligence, and variety of the New Poetry that is sweeping the country. Three years in the making, including a 10-week, 13,000-mile road trip to film the poets on their own turf, this series is for everyone with a love for the power of the word.
IMDb 8,7/1019961 stagione
16+
5 episodi
  • 1. The Land and The People

    1. The Land and The People

    Where are you from? Ours is the New Land, the roots of our family trees criss-cross beneath continents and seas. We're a hyphenated people, blends and shades. This episode features Henry Real Bird, George Ella Lyon, Jeff Tagami, Tracie Morris, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Lord Buckley, Sparrow, Everston Sylvester, Rita Dove and James Still.
    Where are you from? Ours is the New Land, the roots of our family trees criss-cross beneath continents and seas. We're a hyphenated people, blends and shades. This episode features Henry Real Bird, George Ella Lyon, Jeff Tagami, Tracie Morris, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Lord Buckley, Sparrow, Everston Sylvester, Rita Dove and James Still.
    16+
    27min
    31 gen 1996
  • 2. A Day In The Life

    2. A Day In The Life

    To sleep perchance to dream- to wake up and it's off to work. The tick tock of the clock tock tock, the beat beat of the heart, the crash crash of the waves against the shore- the methodical irresistibility of time marches on. This episode features Czeslaw Milosz, Rev. Pedro Pietri, Ismail Azim El, Sheryl Noethe, Matt Cook, Hal Sirowitz, Paul Beatty, C.D. Wright Derek Walcott and others.
    To sleep perchance to dream- to wake up and it's off to work. The tick tock of the clock tock tock, the beat beat of the heart, the crash crash of the waves against the shore- the methodical irresistibility of time marches on. This episode features Czeslaw Milosz, Rev. Pedro Pietri, Ismail Azim El, Sheryl Noethe, Matt Cook, Hal Sirowitz, Paul Beatty, C.D. Wright Derek Walcott and others.
    16+
    27min
    20 feb 1996
  • 3. The American Dream

    3. The American Dream

    The great argument: is a poem inherently political? Or does the poem with political intent cease to be a poem, become rhetoric? This episode features Leonard Cohen, Amiri Baraka, Nerissa Diaz, Jim Northrup, Luís Alfaro, Wanda Coleman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others.
    The great argument: is a poem inherently political? Or does the poem with political intent cease to be a poem, become rhetoric? This episode features Leonard Cohen, Amiri Baraka, Nerissa Diaz, Jim Northrup, Luís Alfaro, Wanda Coleman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others.
    16+
    27min
    20 feb 1996
  • 4. Love & Sex

    4. Love & Sex

    Who wrote "Who wrote the book of love?"? Poets. The domain of the heart, struggling to twin, that's where the poet and the poem step in. This episode features Pearl Cleage, Allen Gingsberg, Maggie Estep, Quincy Troupe, Lou Reed, Joseph Brodsky, Miguel Algarín, Lypsinka and others.
    Who wrote "Who wrote the book of love?"? Poets. The domain of the heart, struggling to twin, that's where the poet and the poem step in. This episode features Pearl Cleage, Allen Gingsberg, Maggie Estep, Quincy Troupe, Lou Reed, Joseph Brodsky, Miguel Algarín, Lypsinka and others.
    16+
    27min
    4 mar 1995
  • 5. The Word

    5. The Word

    Poems are made of words. Theirs is a fragile architecture. Is "the apple" green? or red or yellow? Hanging on the tree or baked in the pie? This episode features Carla Harryman, Robert Creeley, Russell Leong, Johnny Depp, Larry Eigner, Jimmy Carter, Michael Franti, Peter Cook, and others.
    Poems are made of words. Theirs is a fragile architecture. Is "the apple" green? or red or yellow? Hanging on the tree or baked in the pie? This episode features Carla Harryman, Robert Creeley, Russell Leong, Johnny Depp, Larry Eigner, Jimmy Carter, Michael Franti, Peter Cook, and others.
    16+
    27min
    20 feb 1996
  • United States of Poetry
    IMDb 8,7/1019961 stagione
    With over 80 poems to reveal this nation as never before, The United States of Poetry captures the passion, intelligence, and variety of the New Poetry that is sweeping the country. Three years in the making, including a 10-week, 13,000-mile road trip to film the poets on their own turf, this series is for everyone with a love for the power of the word.
    Creatori e interpreti
    Regia
    Mark Pellington
    Produttori
    Bob Holman & Joshua Blum
    Interpreti
    Johnny DeppTracie MorrisLeonard CohenLou ReedQuincy JonesAmiri Baraka
    Produzione
    Washington Square Films & Bowery Arts + Science
    Recensioni
    4.7 out of 5 stars

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    English
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    English [CC]
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