WHITMAN, Robert

It looks as though, more than three decades after the fact, Whitman’s reputation remains based upon a single innovative work of visual theater, Prune. Flat. (1965—sometimes spelled without the periods), which will always be, for those who have seen it during infrequent revivals, a masterpiece of alternative theater. It opens with a film whose image is a movie projector, implicitly announcing that one theme is cinematic images. The film then shows a grapefruit (whose image nearly fills the screen)...