DYLAN THOMAS IN AMERICA

A Bard’s-Eye View of the USA – “I’m hardly living. I’m just a voice on wheels.”
 

Dylan Thomas was one of the best poets of his generation and is also renowned for writing and speaking lively, perceptive prose. During his lifetime, Thomas was spoken of as „the greatest living poet in English“

In January 1950, at the age of thirty-five, Thomas visited America for the first time. His reading tours of the United States, which did much to popularize the poetry reading as a new medium for the art, are famous and notorious. Thomas was the archetypal Romantic poet of the popular American imagination—he was theatrical, engaged in roaring disputes in public, and read his work aloud with tremendous depth of feeling.
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NEAT presents a dramatic reading of Dylan in America by Derrick Jenkins.