The Graffiti Verite Documentary Series
GV6: The ODYSSEY: Poets, Passion & Poetry
Featuring 31 Contemporary Poets
The Complex & Compelling Face of Poetry
A Bob Bryan Film © Copyright 2006 Bryan World Productions, LLC.
 

Bryan has captured on DVD / film the inner lining of the poet s soul.  Thirty-one featured poets paint their spiritual word-paths, bringing us along with them until both the poet and the audience converge onto Bryan s lens.  Even if you close your eyes and listen only to the audio, you will hear the symphony of poetic cadence, rhythm and pulsing spirit rising from each line, each image, and each note.  Listening to the spoken word removes the prejudices of stringent, suffocating parameters of syntax and pushes you out beyond the fringe of academic paranoia, opening your senses to the intricacy and complexities of experiences as they explode or whisper to your own soul, drawing you into the poet s voice.  Poetic visuals rise off the page, fill the lungs of the poet, ooze out their chest, spilling across the screen.  Studying poetry academically can fill your head with words, with rules and metered portions of life - but as we see in this poetic masterpiece, expressing your soul s voice is Poetry that is lived.

Even if all you took away from GV6: THE ODYSSEY: Poets, Passion & Poetry was enjoying the poetry of Askew, Beychok, Bradley, Brandler, Byrne, Campos, Cavat, Chang, Clough, Coleman, Constantine, Daaood, Daly, Danielsen, Dobbs, Dumisani, FrancEyE, Goldman, Hoffman, Dr. Thea Iberall, Kim, Lecrivain, Lummis, Mankerian, Masuda, Mullen, Natal, Rodriguez, Taylor, Thompson, Tseng or Weekley, I would tell you to make sure you buy a few more copies to give as gifts, because this poetic kaleidoscope would be a treasured gift for sure.  With Bryan s gifted direction, the "Poets, Passion & Poetry" segment of the documentary series is much more than poetic genius or a sound-scape of poets reading their work, it is a necessary educational tool for all poets, beginner or seasoned.  This should be on every reading list in Middle School grades on to Graduate Level Fine Arts Majors.

The words of wisdom passed on under the section titled: Wise Words of Encouragement from the Poets should be heard by anyone who has ever held a pen or tapped a keyboard, hoping to satisfy the drive inside to press their feelings, their thoughts, their vision onto the page or screen. A very gifted poet, Dr.Thea Iberall shares her expertise on Contextual Poetry and Brendan Constantine, another brilliant poet, illuminates the history of Chapbooks.  The light that Dr. Iberall and Constantine shed on these topics are important for all writers and they do a remarkable job of showing rather than telling, thereby drawing the audience into their experience.

As Publisher/Editor of RoadHousePress, poetry columnist for motorcyclegoodies.com, editor for the Poets Corner column in Connecticut Cruise News Newspaper I recommend that you not only place this on your Holiday Shopping List, but that you encourage your schools to include this in their Fine Arts or English study programs.  Personally, I will keep this copy on hand for my own spiritual development, as Marcielle Brandler advises "Go on your own path and do it the way that feels right to you... poetry is something you want to create from your soul."

For further information or to purchase a copy of GV6: THE ODYSSEY: Poets, Passion & Poetry or to see the entire documentary series:

Executive Producer / Director Bob Bryan, BRYAN WORLD PRODUCTIONS, LLC.
P.O. Box 74033, Los Angeles, CA 90004

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