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Film, Video Three American poets on creating and translating poetry Former supplied title: LC performance. Interview. Creating and translating poetry--Ben Belitt and John Frederick Nims / Creating and translating poetry

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Title

  • Three American poets on creating and translating poetry

Other Title

  • Former supplied title: LC performance. Interview. Creating and translating poetry--Ben Belitt and John Frederick Nims
  • Creating and translating poetry

Summary

  • Poets Ben Belitt and John Frederick Nims read and discuss their own poetry and selections from their translations of great poems. The panel is moderated by James Dickey.

Names

  • Geesey, George, 1933- direction
  • McKnight, Carolyn, production
  • Belitt, Ben, 1911-2003
  • Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999
  • Dickey, James
  • WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
  • Library of Congress
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund

Created / Published

  • United States : WETA, 1967.

Contents

  • Mr. Belitt reads: From The enemy joy: new and selected poems: I. Single song, Second Adam, The hornet's house ; III. A reading of entrails, The orphaning -- Mr. Nims reads: From The iron pastoral: Love poem -- From Knowledge of the evening: The young Ionia ; Last judgement -- From Of flesh and bone: Bikini ; The girl ; Days of our years ; With fingering head ; Parting ; Vision ; D.O.M., A.D. 2167.
  • Mr. Belitt reads: From Selected poems of Pablo Neruda, edited and translated by Mr. Belitt: Los enigmas (You would know what the crab) -- Mr. Nims reads: From a forthcoiming revised edition of Poems of St. John of the Cross: Once in the dark of night.

Headings

  • -  Translating and interpreting
  • -  American poetry
  • -  Poetics

Genre

  • Literary readings
  • Nonfiction television programs

Notes

  • -  Participants: Ben Belitt, John Frederick Nims.
  • -  Moderator: James Dickey.
  • -  Exact date of broadcast unknown.
  • -  Recorded on October 23, 1967 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Ben Belitt and John Frederick Nims reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 23, 1967 M/B/RS Recorded Sound Section.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (60 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • LC Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019600433

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Geesey, George, Direction, Ben Belitt, John Frederick Nims, James Dickey, Weta-Tv, Library Of Congress, and Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund. Three American poets on creating and translating poetry. produceds by Mcknight, Carolynuction United States: WETA, 1967. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019600433/.

APA citation style:

Geesey, G., Belitt, B., Nims, J. F., Dickey, J., Weta-Tv, Library Of Congress & Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund. (1967) Three American poets on creating and translating poetry. McKnight, C., prod United States: WETA. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019600433/.

MLA citation style:

Geesey, George, Direction, et al. Three American poets on creating and translating poetry. prod by Mcknight, Carolynuction United States: WETA, 1967. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019600433/>.