Teenager in Nova Scotia by Hedwig Gorski, performance poetry on the Vermilion River, Louisiana

Beat time traveler Hedwig Gorski named performance poetry in Austin, Texas, as the driving force behind the Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project in the 1980s featuring professionally recorded audio by Texas beat poet greats like Raul Salinas for radio audiences around the world. Hedwig rides on a hand-crafted boat from Vermilionville, Louisiana, to perform Teenager in Nova Scotia to the live radio broadcast soundtrack from CD Send in the Clown. Music by East of Eden Band, composed by D'Jalma Garnier, also seen in the video. Louisiana French Cajuns and Nova Scotians are closely connected by their history and family bloodlines. Hedwig Gorski lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for three years 1974-77 near the home of Beat photographer, Robert Frank, creator of Beat film romp Pull My Daisy, while attending the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. After that, she moved to Austin, Texas, and became a driving force against boring literature through a performance poetry campaign against quiet printed page poems written only for the page. In this video, she conflates time and cultures with a universal experience, the sexual awakening of a young teenage girl in her fisherman father's coastal home. History seems to be shoved into the present with the blues music composed by Garnier and performed by East of Eden Band in contrast to the leisure of the summer in the South setting. (Funded in part by the Louisiana Division of the Arts and Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation)

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[PerfectoMedia]

buy the mp3 or album CD Send in the Clown on amazon.com. also find books and other stuff by Hedwig. amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?ur­l=search-alias%3Daps&field-key­words=hedwig+gorski

[PerfectoMedia]

Join me on the CD Send in the Clown Facebook page. Let's start a conversation.

[faelismaegnus]

I know djalma. :)

[JensPeterMadsen]

@PerfectoMedia

Very Interesting send materials and prospects to mail@spokenwordfestival.dk in Odense Denmark. Danish spoken video

osrtv3.dk/Video/1-Lokalt/L-Spo­kenword-Festival-2010-1064.wmv

Comming festivals will have international representation.

[performancepoem]

really really cool! performance poem is a classic from the 1980s & wonderful to see her alive & well still kickin' it. have send in the clown album from itunes.

[EastofEdenBand]

@PerfectoMedia check out Hedwig's books and audio amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?ur­l=search-alias%3Daps&field-key­words=hedwig+gorski&x=16&y=27

[EastofEdenBand]

The words for this poem are in micro book Poetique that is in the same order as the audio poetry and music on the CD Send in the Clown: The Performance Poetry of Hedwig Gorski. It's on amazon.com itunes as mp3 and CD. Poetique is on Kindle and in paper book. Wonderful gifts for very little money. Do you have academics, smart music, lit and poetry lovers, really everyone will enjoy this unique entertainment.