PRESENTING JANE & JOHN: FREILICHER & ASHBERY ON FILM & IN PRINT

source: Harvard University 2017年1月12日
John Ashbery’s biographer Karin Roffman presents selections from the Poetry Room’s 2014 oral history on the making of the short film, PRESENTING JANE (1952). Recently recovered after disappearing over 60 years ago, PRESENTING JANE was donated to the Woodberry Poetry Room/Harvard Film Archive by its creator Harrison Starr and featured the young John Ashbery, Jane Freilicher, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler.
Outtakes and excerpts from the 1952 film are shown during the event, overlaid with commentary recorded at the 2014 oral history. Roffman also reads excerpts from her much-anticipated biography, THE SONGS WE KNOW BEST: JOHN ASHBERY’S EARLY LIFE (FSG, 2017).
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