Jonas Mekas
Daybooks 1970-1972
Author(s) Jonas Mekas
Format paperback book
Year 2003
Language(s) English
Pages 78 pages
Description
This book is a collection of 76 poems written by Jonas Mekas between 1970 and 1973, translated into English from the original Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis.
BIO:
Jonas Mekas is the founder and artistic director of Anthology Film Archives. He also founded the Film Makers Cooperative and Film Culture magazine. Mekas has been writing film reviews for the Village Voice since 1958. He frequently associated with artists such as Andy Warhol, Nico, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Salvador Dalí, and his fellow Lithuanian George Maciunas. He has made narrative films, documentaries, and film diaries, such as Walden (1969), Lost, Lost, Lost (1975), Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972), and Zefiro Torna (1992). In 2001, he released a five-hour film-diary titled As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, hand-assembled from fifty years of recorded archives of his life. Peter Sempel filmed Jonas Mekas in the film Jonas in the Desert (1994). He lives in Brooklyn.
EXCERPT:
63.
roadside icon
hilltop cross
heart of a bell
the field rye
the linden limb
the forest moss
city gates
dusty footpath
blood duct
viper's foam.
Texts: Jonas Mekas
Translator: Vyt Bakaitis
Pages: 78
Cover: Softcover
Type: Poetry
Language: English
Year of publication: 2003