Poetry at Vehicule 1978 - the DVD

Of the many many poets who came to Vehicule in the '70s, a few were captured on 3/4" videotape. Eight of these, the FOUR HORSEMEN, Gerry Gilbert, Opal L. Nations, Richard Sommer and Tom Konyves are included in the recently released DVD, Poetry at Vehicule 1978 (available from AM Productions).

Here's an excerpt from the DVD, featuring Gerry Gilbert, who we learned passed away last Friday, June 19, 2009.

Gerry Gilbert (1936-2009)

For the Vehicule reading, Gerry pasted pages of poetry across the wall of the space. As the poems were pasted at eye height, he walked along the wall, reading. His poems were... recordings of his thoughts, inner conversations, reflections, self-centered but always in the moment, always coming back to the poem he's thinking, writing. Many of his poems are only a few words, a phrase, out of context, comic aphorisms, a "translation" of Basho's haiku, or the "independently coined" phrase PRONDL, from the "automatic gearshift on your car". His reading is sometimes conversational, sometimes forced out one syllable at-a-time.
He was suave, with silk scarf, moustache and sideburns. 1978 and very much alive. Gerry Gilbert.