[New-Poetry] for amy's film class

[Philip Metres]

Amy, 

I was just drawing up a list for fun, after seeing "Il Postino" (which, oddly, is structured ideologically in a very similar way to Dead Poets, at least in terms of what poetry signifies: two things--1) getting chicks (gendered thusly) and 2) liberation/resistance/dissent (which gets you killed).

But please do watch the great and mysterious "zerkalo" The Mirror by Andrey Tarkovsky, whose father's great poetry haunts here and there.  

Also "Henry Fool" is pretty arch.

Philip Metres
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John Carroll University
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