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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>It's a good film in its way, & then there are the various readings by Olson on YouTube, of which his reading of “Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [witheld],” is to me deeply moving.
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYxpSjkyAg
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>Doug
>On 2011-04-27, at 6:48 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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