Lower East Side History Project & New York Public Library Event Series

Join us for a showing of the classic 1959 fiilm Pull My Daisy (29min, Dir: Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie)
Featuring: Allan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Delphine Seyrig, Peter Orlovsky, Pablo Frank, Mooney Peebles, Alice Neal, Sally Gross.

"Friday morning in the universe..." is the opening line of Jack Kerouac's improvisational narration of a day in the life of the Beat poets. In a Bowery loft, a railyard worker plays host to the Beat poets, a visiting Bishop, his sister and mother. Awarded the first prize for Best Experimental Film for 1959 at the San Francisco Festival, the film is a "portrait of the inner condition of an entire generation."

May 6, 2009 - 6:00pm
Ottenfdorfer Library
Free!

Stay after the film for a discussion with LESHP's Cary Abrams.