“The best film about an American poet ever made.” –William Corbett “Much more than a merely brilliant bio-documentary, Ferrini\'s film about Charles Olson and Gloucester is an invaluable contribution to our literature. If only we had a film like this for each of our major poets and writers, what a treasure that would be.” —Russell Banks “This is a sublime film . . . by far the best film I’ve ever seen on a figure in American literature. It is simply stunning.” —Jim Harrison Winner of the Grand Documentary Award, Berkeley Film Festival, 2007 Friday, October 19, 2007, 3-5 PM Welcome Center Auditorium, Warren and Woodward Avenues, Wayne State University,Detroit Commentary and discussion with Henry Ferrini following the screening; free and open to the public |
His epic, The Maximus Poems, focused on a “poetics of place” centered on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and united personal, public, historical, and unconscious sources. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in Olson as poet of public/private immediacy, whose work constructs an alternative polity of spontaneity and depth and whose focus on the American landscape anticipates the development of contemporary eco-poetics.
For more information, go to the “Polis Is This” home page: http://www.polisisthis.com/Polis/Home.html
See also the review by Michael Boughn on the Olson Now web site: http://olsonnow.blogspot.com/2007/08/michael-boughnreview-of-polis-is-this.html
Sponsored by: Revisioning Authors, a Working of the Humanities Center;
and Film Studies, Department of English, Wayne State University
and Film Studies, Department of English, Wayne State University
Contact: Prof. Barrett Watten, Department of English, WSU
Email: b.watten@wayne.edu
Contact: Prof. Robert Burgoyne, Film Studies, Department of English, WSU
Email: ad5148@wayne.edu