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

[Roger Day]

My, how prettily Kerry suffers in the name of Poesy!! don't you see
how ALL poets suffer? And it mentions angels too! Oh my, oh my!

Faber produced a book on poetry and film; it too trawls the surface
connection between Poetry and Film. Important to be sure but it does
leave out a swathe of other, to me, more important traffic between
these two arts.

Roger

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com> wrote:
> I notice you elide my words about *poetry*. I'd rather have films
> about or from poetry, of which I give several examples, but you, I
> notice give none.
>
> Films about poets tell us nothing about their poetry, or Poetry, no
> matter how debatably wonderful their portrayals. Might as well have
> films about postmen. I suppose in this way films, no matter how finely
> wrought, can be treated as a vulgar art rather than one which has
> equal traffic with poetry.
>
> Roger
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:45 AM,  <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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