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clip from Shaping the Darkness: Donald Finkel and Constance Urdang, Producer and Director: Peter Carlos, Associate Director: Sharon Price, Production/Camera: Marianne Kuzara and Ken Slattery, Mark Gifford, Barry Bruns, Steve West, Jeff Hardcastle

William Gaddis discusses "political" art and its encroachment upon "private life" during a 1981 question and answer session at Bard College.

William Gaddis distinguishes between the desire to write and the desire to "be a writer" during a 1981 question and answer session at Bard College.

William Gaddis discusses the disintegration of reading during a 1981 question and answer session at Bard College.

Robert Creeley discusses the folly of seeking meaning in poetry.

During a lecture on "Poetry and Magic," Robert Creeley discusses an experimental gathering--assembled by psychologist Timothy Leary--intended to examine the voices of Federico Garcia-Lorca's three poetic types.

Robert Creeley reads and discusses his poem "The Door" in connection to Charles Olson's idea that poets "do what [they] know before [they] know what [they] do" during a lecture for his "Poetry and Magic" series. Herein, Creeley compares poets to…

Robert Creeley discusses the connection between Erich Neumann's concept of "the mouth" and his own poem "The Language" as part of his "Poetry and Magic" lecture series.