Frank O'hara and Ed Sanders

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1966

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Introduces the personalities and works of Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders through their readings, environments, and approaches to their medium. Presents O'Hara reading "To the Film Industry in Crisis," "The Day Lady Dies," "Song," and "Having a Coke with You." Visits O'Hara's bookstore while he discusses his pacifism, literary rock-and-roll, his interest in filmmaking, and the content of some of his poetry. Shows Sanders in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York where he lives, in his bookstore. Describes an experience of his and the poem "Cemetery Hill" which came out of this experience.

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