These two new entries culled from the award-winning public television series Anyone for Tennyson? once again features members of a professional poetry-reading group and celebrities sharing poetry with us. A Quip With Yip & Friends, the better of the two, focuses on light verse, limericks, and epigrams from the pens of Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, e.e. cummings, and Edgar "Yip" Harburg. Ranging from Nash's delightfully sarcastic "Coffee With the Meal," to Harburg's haunting song "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (one of the only somber offerings), guest appearances by Jack Lemmon, Fred Gwynne, and George Plimpton add to the fun. Whispers on the Wind offers visions of Southern and Western America, as the readers sample works ranging from gospel poetry to Native American poems. Ruby Dee, Levar Burton, Cameron Mitchell, John Two Birds Arbuckle, and Robert Culp lend their talents. Culp's rendition of D.H. Lawrence's "Death of a Mountain Lion" is especially powerful. Although the video box claims that poems by James Dickey and DeBose Heyward are on the tape, they are not. That goof aside, both of these titles are recommended and simply commended for trying to make poetry accessible to a wider audience. (Available from most distributors.)
A Quip With Yip & Friends; Whispers On The Wind
(1990) 45 m. $24.95. Fries Home Video. Public performance rights included Vol. 5, Issue 7
A Quip With Yip & Friends; Whispers On The Wind
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