The Editor Who Helped Build a Golden Age of American Letters
https://newrepublic.com/article/205583/editor-helped-build-golden-age-american-letters
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The Editor Who Helped Build a Golden Age of American Letters
https://newrepublic.com/article/205583/editor-helped-build-golden-age-american-letters
#HackerNews #Editor #GoldenAge #AmericanLetters #LiteraryInfluence #NewRepublic
A wonderful and unique resource of American #poets from a time not so long ago and yet from another world.
Eleven short films featuring eleven+ brilliant poets.
#poetry #AmericanLetters #documentary
https://www.badanimalbooks.com/single-post/2020/03/19/usa-poetry
In 1965 the poet and documentarian Richard O. Moore shot ten short films focusing on an all-star lineup of American poets. Moore was a student of the legendary Josephine Miles at UC Berkeley and a friend of Kenneth Rexroth's in his San Francisco salon days. Those contacts helped put him in the orbit of the now infamous poets you see listed above. The footage he captured is nothing short of miraculous, a national treasure type time capsule of another, more literary age. That isn't to say that eve