C O M P A C T . D I S K S
1.
Robert Briggs
SOMEONE SAID NO
Red hot remembering way back to the fabulous fifties when the global marketplace was merely a military-industrial complex.
In "Someone Said No," Robert Briggs examines the disturbing uncertainty of today's 'war on terrorism' by tracing it back to the 1950's. Through the breakdown of a friend, Harmon Crow, Briggs tells the tale of a troubled Beat who survives the collapse by believeing there is "more to life than living."
Written
and read by Robert Briggs. Original music composed & performed by J.
Stuart Fessant.
A skysociety(tm)
production, 2004.
Someone Said No
is
available on audio CD.
available from:
www.cdbaby.com
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2.
Robert Briggs
POETRY AND THE 1950'S:
HOMAGE TO THE BEAT GENERATION
01. Opening
02. Introduction
03. On the Road Without Knowing It
04. The Fifties Was a Deceptive Decade
05. Poetry Is a Dangerous Business
06. Modern Science
07. T. S. Eliot
08. An Absence of Fatalism
09. Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
10. Langston Hughes
11. Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay
12. Dylan Thomas & the Controversial Spell of the Beat Generation
13. Beat Poets: The Knowns and Lesser Knowns
14. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg
15. Bob Kaufman, David Meltzer
16. ruth weiss, Gard Stern, Joanne Kyger
17. 'a stranger afraid'
18. Jazz and Poetry
19. On Believing There was No St. James Infirmary
20. A Forty-Year Backward Glance
As
we enter the 21st century, why does the Beat Generation continue to haunt
the American mind?
"A
delightful personal monologue... part memoir, part scholarly appreciation
... begins with a philosophical rumination on the power of poetry ... (Briggs)
A natural raconteur and teacher, gently provides a history of the poets
who inspired the Beats ... a highly individualistic and heartfelt program."
--Publisher's
Weekly
"The
sense of personal involvement makes it very exciting and convincing - an
invigorating gallop through modern poetry."
--Colin
Wilson
Written
and read by Robert Briggs. Original music composed & performed by J.
Stuart Fessant.
Produced
and directed by Chel White. Cover design: Chelsea Johnson. A skysociety(tm)
production, 1999.
Poetry
and the 1950's: Homage to the Beat Generation
is
available on audio CD.
available from:
www.cdbaby.com
Look
for parts two and three in this audio literature series.
Part
two, in progress; Poetry and the 1950's: Zen and the Kerouac Curse,
pub. date to be announced.
Part
three,
Poetry and the 1950's: The Awareness of Consciousness, pub.
date to be announced.
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