PRESS Breaking the Ice With Pints and Poetry @Wall Street Journal The first hour involved cocktails at the Housing Works Bookstore and Café in SoHo. Then there were readings by Colson Whitehead (“Sag Harbor”), Emily St. John Mandel (“The Singers Gun”) and poet Amy King, who runs a popular poetry group on Goodreads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 20…
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Elsa Zylberstein and Kristin Scott Thomas Don’t get me wrong, I love my country, but when it comes to testing the acting chops of any thespian, I’d say French cinema is the primary place to go about such measures.No fancy props.No extreme special effects.A lot of close up, careful camera work that relies on the…
I’m a Lynch fan who still has not seen “Inland Empire“. I will. Does “intuition” imply to “feel-think”? Stuff on poetry and Derrida below. Fun excerpt from “The Evening Class” blog: One fellow commended Lynch for the dream-like quality of his films, necessitating repeated viewings, and their Derridean sense where something is always off-center, unseen,…
But does it detract or distract from other poetic devices and effects? Is being memorable the beat-all, end-all of a poem’s intent? Not that this should be an either/or question. Sent via Jilly: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory 03 Aug 2008 From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important…
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