1984 Dr. Robert Panara and Allen Ginsberg Presentation: Part One
Channel: RIT Libraries
Date: 2019-03-19

Summary by Joan Naturale. This video is from the NTID collection. Jim Cohn, an interpreting student, arranged for Allen Ginsberg to visit NTID and do a poetry presentation with Dr. Robert F. Panara. Panara shares how he became deaf and turned to poetry as a substitute for music and to help expand his vocabulary. He performs 'On His Deafness' and a Haiku poem. There is discussion of imagery in poetry. Panara then shares his experience directing a Greek play, 'Oedipus' and translating it into Sign Language and discovered strophe and anti-strophe (movement and opposite movement) in the Greek chorus section. He then performs a few examples of this movement concept. He also performs 'We Shall Overcome', 'Tyger, Tyger', and the 'Star-Spangled Banner. He talks about Patrick Graybill’s involvement with the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD) and how it helped with the world-wide acceptance of sign language. Visual description: Jim Cohn has curly brown hair and is wearing a green shirt with a grey vest, and gray pants. On the right-hand side of the screen, Allen Ginsberg has dark brown hair, is wearing glasses, a black jacket, a yellow shirt, and a striped tie.  Next to Allen Ginsberg, is an interpreter Kip Webster. He has reddish-brown hair and a mustache with a beard. He is wearing a white shirt with a grey-green sweater with stripes on the sleeves. On the left side of the screen is Dr. Robert Panara with gray hair wearing glasses. He has a blue shirt and a gray jacket. They are in a classroom in front of a whiteboard.   For more information, please go to the Deaf Studies Archive finding aid link URL: https://archivesspace.rit.edu/repositories/2/resources/815. 

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