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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place is a 2007 documentary film about the life of the poet Charles Olson produced and directed by independent film-maker, Henry Ferrini. It was called “the best film about an American poet ever made” by William Corbett of the Boston Phoenix.
1. Apr. 2007 · Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place: Directed by Henry Ferrini. With Ammiel Alcalay, Willie Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Robin Blaser. Explores Charles Olson's amazing world, where the ordinary landscapes of our daily lives become extraordinary portals to timeless truths about the place we live.
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Ferrini and writer Ken Riaf's meditative documentary succeeds not only in conveying the gigantic power and immanence of Olson's poetics, but also the physical space taken up by Olson's 6-foot, 7-inch frame, and the earthiness—the landscape, historical and literal, of Olson's poetry and the mind behind it:
Henry Ferrini’s film on the life of Charles Olson, great Gloucester poet and the originator of projective verse, has finally been released after more than a dozen years as a work in progress. It could have been entitled “Polis is eyes.” For this is the opening line, both of Letter 6 of the
1. Juni 2008 · Polis Is This is an hour-long documentary homage to Charles Olson (1910–1970), whose breath-based theory of “projective verse” and “open field poetics”—reminisc
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place. Filmmaker Henry Ferrini examines the world of Charles Olson, where ordinary landscapes become portals to timeless truths.
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In Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place, he is revealed as a great, clumsy-looking bear of a man, resembling an out-of-shape offensive lineman (he was 6’8″, and weighed ...
