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

[jforjames at aol.com]

Biopics in general are overdramatizations, and films?tell us little about any art (other than filmmaking)...whether about?poets (poetry), priests (religious faith)?or politicians (statecraft)?or musicians (music making), etc.
I agree, in a general way with what you've said. But poetry, wherever I find even a hint of it or slight glancing reference
to it, interests me.
Finnegan


-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 1:37 am
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Advice -- Film/Lit course w "Poetry" angle



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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