[New-Poetry] Advice -- Film/Lit course w "Poetry" angle

[jforjames at aol.com]

Another good film biography was 'Angel At My Table', the life of Jane Frame (a New Zealand, writer and poet).





-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Advice -- Film/Lit course w "Poetry" angle



I think that films about or containing poets suck. Period. They harp
on our need for *biography*. Poets as *characters* - oh so whimsical,
or some cheap *intellectual* fixing on the shingle or worse, the heavy
hand of intellectual ballast being tied to a "vulgar entertainment.".
The only film that  I think fared otherwise was Regeneration, although
that was a complete hack-job of the novels.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/attachments/20080811/97ad29db/attachment.html