This excerpt is from The United States of Poetry, which presents sixty short films-- as evocative, edgy, and surprising as music videos-- that illustrate individual poems recited by their creators. This virtuostic visual and vocal montage represents a range of topics and emotions as vast and varied as America.

@1996 by Washinton Square Films for ITVS and KQED video.

1. What is your first reaction to the excerpt?

2. Where do you place this in time and location?

3. What do you know about this man?

4. Would you like to talk with him?

5. What would your story be?