Fast Speaking Woman Tribute for Anne Waldman, on her 70th birthday, April 2015.
by Alystyre Julian
An “Outrider” film outtake (2015) for Boog tribute to Anne Waldman (2020). In March 2015, Alystyre Julian requested poets to each film themselves (pre-covid!) using their iPhones, reading a page (runs in order of actual text) of “Fast Speaking Woman” by Anne Waldman (City Lights Publishers). Cover photograph by Sheyla Baykal, 1974.This video was projected as a surprise at Anne Waldman’s 70th birthday, in her backyard. (She was surprised!)
The Fast Speaking Woman Collective (in order of appearance):
1-Reed Bye: “let me try you with my magic power”
2.-Pat Steir: “the artist dreaming inside her house”
3-Vincent Katz: “I’m a fast speaking woman”
Interludes: Eva Hunt: “flowers that clean”
4-Alexis Myre: “I’m a sapphire woman”
5-Lee Ann Brown: “I’m a Southern-Cross woman”
6-Sarah Riggs and Layla Mae: “I’m a bird woman”
7-Omar Berrada and Safira: “I’m a nervous woman”
8-Laird Hunt and Eva: “I’m the doe-eyed woman”
9-Steven Taylor: “I’m the cataloguing woman”
10-Grazia Della-Terza: “I’m the woman with colorful threads”
11-Douglas Dunn: “I’m the woman with scales”
12-Jules Bakshi: “I’m the jaguar woman”
13-Bob Holman: “I’m the big-hearted woman”
14-Nicole Peyrafitte and Kush: ”I’m the pink dawn woman”
15-Pierre Joris and Kush: “I’m the resonating woman”
16-Cecilia Vicuña: “I’M THE POET DREAMING INSIDE HER HOUSE”
17- Selah Saterstrom and HR Hegenaur: “I’m the Infanta, I’ll get my way”/”I’m the Shakti
18-Karl Leone: “I’m the raised-on-jazz woman”
19- Rachel Levitsky: “I’m the visceral woman”
20-Tracie Morris: “they say it’s like softness there”
21-Kristin and Sophie Prevallet with Andy Indiana Spears, JenMarie MacDonald and Travis McDonald: “I’m the woman with the keys”/”I’m a fast-rolling woman”
22-Alystyre Julian: “I’m a rolling-speech woman”
23-Alystyre Julian: “I’m the citti-patti woman”
24-Eileen Myles: “I’m the celebrity woman”
25-CA Conrad and Melissa Buzzeo: “Mincy, mincy, mincy, mincy she cried”
26-Brenda Coultas: “the Woman-Who-Does-Things”
27-Max Davies: “I’m the woman traveling inside her head”
27-Thurston Moore: “busy woman to light up the day!”
28-Eva Prinz: “I’m the woman who walked to Nepal”
28-Toni Oswald: “I’m the woman over the next peak”
29-Nicolas Van Egten: “I thrive on passion”
29-Ambrose Bye: “I can out-boast all of you”
30-Marcella Durand and Ishmael: “with me it’s pleasure weather style”
31-Eleni Sikelianos: “I’m the woman who dreams”
Last line-Eva Hunt: “I’M THE ARTIST INSIDE HER MAGIC HOUSE”
Steven Taylor: outro beats
Alystyre Julian (https://www.facebook.com/outriderfilm) has documented Anne Waldman’s work-in-action for over a decade, and is currently in post-production for Outrider film. She is also a writer, photographer, and yoga teacher in New York City.
With Anne Waldman and at St. Mark’s Books, 2014. No Land photo.