Maximus from Dogtown I.
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>From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Apr 28, 2011 12:03 PM
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>Subject: Re: being charles olson with john malkovich and glo.ma.
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>I told Ferrini at an early screening of the then-unfinished film that he needed maybe 10 minutes at the beginning to position Olson for the less-informed. What can I say? I usually point doubters to Maximus from Gloucester 1, which I think is a shortcut into the program of the poems. Best to be read aloud.
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>There's really nothing else like him.
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>>From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Apr 28, 2011 11:00 AM
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>>Subject: Re: being charles olson with john malkovich and glo.ma.
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>>Yeah, I take your point, Mark, as I am like you someone to whom his work means much.
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>>(earlier this year, after a reading by Derek Walcott from his award winning new book, White Egrets, which was in its way all very good, I came home & picked up my Olson Collected & read a few, just to get back into what I feel is truly classic.)
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>>Anyway, that's why I think just seeing/hearing him read, as in the Letter bit, can give peoplem a feel for what he accomplished, if only a small taste.
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>>Doug
>>On 2011-04-28, at 8:53 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
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>>> The one problem I have with the film is imagining an audience that's not already deeply involved with Olson's work (which I am). If the word needs to get out, and I think it does, he has to be introduced to the larger poetry audience (and perhaps beyond)and the reasons why he's essential made clear. As it is, the film feels to me like a further extension of the cult-like base.
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