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A Celebration of Yukio Mishima – A 20th Century Masters Tribute: This tribute event was sponsored by PEN American Center and Lincoln Center and included photographs and a presentation by Eikoh Hosoe, dramatizations of Mishima’s novels from Paul Schrader’s film “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” and presentations by Mishima’s translator John Nathan, writers Jay McInerney, William Vollmann and Hortense Calisher, and opera director Chen Shi-Zheng.

A Celebration of Yukio Mishima: A Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute

Amiri Baraka reads “Rhythm Travel” at the 2008 Beyond Margins Celebration.


Amiri Baraka Reads “Rhythm Travel”

The celebrated poet reads the seminal letter of political protest, in which she became the first and only person to date to refuse the highest honor bestowed upon an artist on behalf of the people. Background and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/16/adrienne-rich-national-medal-of-arts-letter/

Adrienne Rich declines the National Medal of Arts, 1997

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A Celebration of Yukio Mishima: A Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute

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