In keeping with my technical theme, both poems are rich in like sounds, certainly richer than many a merely competent poem in end rhyme. For example, in the first couple of sentences in Frost's ...

Never released before in theaters, the late, great documentarian Les Blank's 1974 "A Poem Is a Naked Person" is a tuneful peculiarity, capturing singer-songwriter Leon Russell and his bandmates ...

It’s been decades since filmmaker Les Blank made the documentary about musician Leon Russell, “A Poem is a Naked Person.” But it’s only now, two years after Blank’s death, that the film ...

Whiskery and restless, grooving and grotesque, the documentarian Les Blank’s long-suppressed film A Poem Is a Naked Person plays like your memories of some mad, stoned last-century summer ...

Apr 13, 2016 Web Exclusive By Joseph Kyle Photography by Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. There’s a cautionary tale to be found in A Poem Is A Naked Person, the unreleased Les Blank film about ...

Sports and sports heroes can be like a blank screen on which we project our feelings. The two great lefthanded pitchers of my youth, White Ford and Sandy Koufax, were like that for me. To my ...

I like humour, and I suppose I was sort of have a sort of a feminist sensibility that would would come through all of them as well. “I want people to enjoy my poems.