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Acuff Chair of Excellence Anthony Zerbe solo performance of It’s All Done With Mirrors

Presented by Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University

November 30, 2011

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Hollywood actor, Anthony Zerbe, will present his one man show based on the poetry and prose of e. e. cummings.

ANTHONY ZERBE provides joyous access to the art and energy of one of America’s most beloved poets Here again are the Cambridge ladies who “live in furnished souls;” the defunct blue-eyed Buffalo Bill; the comic love duet of “he-said, she-said;” and the mesmerizing voice from the circus high wire in him. Zerbe moves pell mell through a parade of characters, accents and dazzling word plays capturing in perfect moments Cummings favorite subjects ... Paris, New York, the mOOn, Spring, first loves & the Circus! Like Cummings, Anthony Zerbe is an accomplished raconteur and his asides and anecdotes recall a time when conversation was considered an art form. IT’S ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS is an uncommon mix of theatre and salon.

A poet of both joy and satire, E.E.CUMMINGS (1894-1962), along with James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and William Faulkner, is one of the progenitors of the modern movement in literature. He manipulated language and typography to offer new ways of presenting poetry on the page. “He was everything an American poet should be: fiercely independent, unsparingly amorous, joyfully Bohemian, dourly patriotic, engagingly eccentric. He was our kind of genius, self-taught and fearless; he was P.T. Barnum, Charles Ives, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Armstrong, Robert Goddard, Buster Keaton and Frank Zappa. To some of his contemporaries he appeared lunatic. Now he seems one of the few bright human beings in a world of robots.” (Fred Chappell “Celebrating America’s originalest poet on his 100th anniversary”) Today Cummings still beguiles readers as the poet of youth, the poet of the importance of being rather than doing, the poet of spring (“mender of things”), to whom a flower meant more than a skyscraper.

This event takes place in Trahern Theatre.