CHICAGO POEMS:  POETRY VIDEO  (DVD)
Publisher: The Vanity of Human Wishes Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: available:  www.oldfamilymovies.com
Genres: New Media
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CHICAGO POEMS: POETRY VIDEO consists of 20 short videos, all on characters and places associated with Chicago.  Each video is based on a poem read by the author as he celebrates the sights, sounds, and sensations of Chicago, ranging from pizza to Michael Jordan to Al Capone.

The DVD is forty minutes:

    * Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza
    * Otis Spann's South Side Piano
    * Demon Dogs
    * Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
    * The Water Tower
    * Soldier Field
    * Buckingham Fountain
    * Lincoln Park
    * Michael Jordan
    * Introit
    * Dick Butkus
    * The Roma Restaurant
    * The Art Institute
    * Hyde Park
    * Carl Sandburg,1878-1967
    * Richard J. Daley
    * Frank Lloyd Wright
    * Four Chicago Windy City Songs for Wind
    * Al Capone 
    * Four Chicago Bus Stops: haiku

               

                                                           CHICAGO DEEP DISH PIZZA

                                                                 --medium Special

                                                         You are down to your last slice.
                                       You ate the whole thing almost.  It must have weighed
                                                                  almost five pounds.

                              You couldn't stop yourself after 2 small spoons of chopped fresh basil
                                              began deep down to bite into your taste buds
                                                                       along with
                                                  the tantalizing teaspoon of opulent oregano,
                                                                        spicing 
                                                                           up
                                                        the plush-red plum tomatoes.

                                     When the pungent parmesan met the molten mozzarella, 
                                                                 your hot tongue
                                               deep-kissed the deep delight of deep dish
                                                                       that is
                                                         the true taste of Chicago.

                                        You ate the rich, Italian soul food of the city's soul:
                                        layer after layer, cheese after big cheese, sausage
                                                           after the satisfaction
                                               of knowing that gluttony in Chicago
                                                                   is often
                                                         its own glorious reward.

                                                         Finish it off.  Go ahead.
                                   So what if you now weigh more than the Wrigley Building?

                                                     This is pizza.  This is Chicago.

                                                          This is Chicago pizza.