- Collection:
- Big Joy Digital Collection
- Title:
- Robert Peters interview, 2010-01
- Creator:
- Peters, Robert, 1924-2014
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hinkle, Ian
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2010-01
- Subject:
- Poets, American
Experimental films
Beat poetry, American - People:
- Broughton, James, 1913-1999
- Location:
- United States, California, Orange County, Huntington Beach, 33.6603, -117.99923
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Topics discussed: Peters and Paul Trachtenberg watch their scene from Broughton's film "Devotions"; Good friendship with "evanescent," "erotic," "silly" Broughton; Free spirit freed me up in writing, in life, as I broke out of academia; I would follow my "wyrd" -- my fate; Poets can strike nerves that other kinds of writers can't; Most people don't care about poetry; Only remembers Broughton's "throw-away" poem, Nipples and Cocks; Beats were able to say what they pleased without concern with form, could beat back, kick, rage, howl; Joel Singer as affectionate, caring ; Reads "This is It," "This is It (2)," "God is my Beloved," "Canticle," "A Hymn to Big Joy," "Going with Big Joy," "Life with Big Joy."
Robert Louis Peters (October 20, 1924 - June 13, 2014) was an American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924. He held a PhD in Victorian Literature. His poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis. The book commemorating this loss, Songs for a Son, was selected by poet Denise Levertov to be published by W. W. Norton in 1967, and it still remains in print. Songs for a Son began a flood of poetry. Shortly after his divorce from his wife Jean, Peters met poet Paul Trachtenberg and established a relationship lasting more than 36 years. The two appear in the Broughton-Singer film "Devotions." - Local Identifier:
- W146_PetersR_201001
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bigjoy/id/26
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Robert Peters, interviewed January 2010, Big Joy Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:10:51
- Original Collection:
- Big Joy Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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