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Furious Flower 1: Seers
Date of Creation
1998
Description
00:12 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:25 Rita Dove speaks and reads "Augusta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove"; 06:45 Dove reads "Parsley"; 10:40 Dove reads "The Island Women of Paris"; 12:55 "After Reading 'Mickey In The Night Kitchen' for the Third Time Before Bed"; 14:04 Opal Moore interviews Toi Derricotte; 17:15 Derricotte reads "Before Making Love"; 23:12 Derricotte reads "Clitoris"; 24:30 Derricotte reads "Coming"; 28:55 Judith Thomas interviews Dolores Kendrick; 30:55 Kendrick reads "Peggy in Killing"; 40:52 Kendrick reads "Hattie on the Block"; 44:03 Deborah E. McDowell interviews Sherley Anne Williams; 45:12 Williams reads "The Black Back-Up"; Joyce Owens Pettis interviews Gerald W. Barrax; 1:01:40 Barrax reads "Jeopardy"; 1:06:17 Barrax reads "Sunday 24 May 1992 10:30a.m."; 1:12:20 Eugenia W. Collier interviews E. Ethelbert Miller; 1:13:52 Miller reads "In Small Town USA"; 1:17:12 Miller reads "Rebecca"; 1:20:10 "The Bronx is Where Dreams are Made"; 1:24:34 Miller reads "Omar"; 1:27:57 Aldon Lynn Nielson interviews Michael S. Harper; 1:31:10 Harper reads "Nightmare Begins Responsibility"; 1:34:42 Harper reads "Grandfather"; 1:40:10 Harper reads "Studs"; 1:45:00 "The Drowning of the Facts of a Life"; 1:47:55 Harper reads "My Father's Face"; 1:50:15 "Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song"; 1:51:26 Credits roll [Video is damaged/glitchy 41:37-48:45 and 56:40 to end, audio is fine]
Creator
Furious Flower Poetry Center
Contributors
California Newsreel
Collection Number
UA 0017
Collection Title
Identifier
FF183
Digital Origin
reformatted digital
Type of Resource
moving image
Running Time
01:52:32
Rights
Copyright for official University records is held by James Madison University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).
Recommended Citation
Furious Flower 1: Seers, 1998, FF0183, Furious Flower Poetry Center Records, 1970-2021, UA0017, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
Repository
Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University
