On Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 1:37:03 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Gerard Ian Lewis wrote:
> > >"Will Dockery" wrote:
> >
> > > The Zorro video:
> >
> > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G64jUD1tRRA
> >
> > > I'm not denying that you can "entertain" an
> > > audience with this
> > stuff, especially if you walk the walk and drawl the drawl to a
> > musical backing and sell yourself (as you do quite astutely) to the
> > kind of folks who still fall for Beat- generation posturings.
> >
> >> I'm well aware of the anti-Beat sediments
> >
> >Presumably you and Benders get on
> >so well because you share the same sediments?
> The sediment that poetry should be entertainment, yeah:

Even after having been corrected earlier in this thread, the Donkey still misuses "sediment" -- hilariously.

> http://tinyurl.com/559dck
> "In my opinion Will Dockery is easily one of the most authentic American
> poets around. A real coffeehouse poet who is not scared of mingling some
> real American elements such as country music into his poetry. Whileas you
> just try to appear as European as possible with all your sucking up to 80
> year old European surrealists."
> -M.H.Benders
> How the project began:
> M.H. Benders: "Hey Dockery, what about you reading some of my Dutch poems in
> front of a live coffeehouse audience and videotaping it? I'd really like to
> make this sort of cross cultural art. I will put it on my website which is
> viewed by a lot of Dutch people every day. I wrote a new poem called 'The
> Autograph of Zorro'. I have both an english and a Dutch version. It would be
> fantastic if you could read it to a poetry club dressed as Zorro, preferably
> in both the english and the Dutch version. Make someone videotape it and you
> can send me thecassette and I will convert it to an internet video. I will
> promote this video in whole Holland and you'll sure be a known name to the
> dutch poetry crowd. Let me know how we continue."
> Dockery: "I think this could be interesting. I saw a short video clip of
> yours last Winter on one of the newsgroups that reminded me of the video
> films I made with Truman Bentley in the years 1996-99, and the idea of the
> reading of "The Autograph Of Zorro" brings back thoughts of all those hours
> of footage. I'm thinking of a video for "The Autograph Of Zorro" that would
> use not only me reading the English translation of "The Autograph Of Zorro",
> backed by my jazz musician friends, Henry, Grumpy, Follicle, et al...
> but..."
> M. H. Benders: "That's great. It sounds like a really interesting project.. I
> will promote the video over my website which has about 80.000 visitors a
> year, enough to give your name a decent boost into
> recognition by dutch people. It's nice that these sort of cross-cultural
> initiatives can develop over the internet. So much negativity floating
> around that it's good sometimes something positive happens."
> [...]
> "Thanks for showing an interest in the cross cultural project I am planning.
> You can arrange the reading events in everyway that you see fit, I trust
> your artistic vision. When you have taped the events you can send the tape.
> It would be nice, I think, to have some real American elements mixed with it
> like Country Music (I have always been a great country music fan) but you
> can also use jazz if you want. I will make sure the video is digitalised and
> shown on different locations on the Dutch internet. Then, in the future, we
> can also try it the other way around."
> --
> ''Dream Tears'' by Will Dockery and Brian Mallard
> http://www.myspace.com/shadowvilleallstars