Picturehouse Poems

The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon Olds on Marilyn Monroe, Louise Erdrich on John Wayne, May Swenson on the James Bond films, Terrance Hayes on early Black cinema, Maxine Kumin on Casablanca, and Richard Wilbur on The Prisoner of Zenda. Orson Welles, Leni Riefenstahl, and Ingmar Bergman share the spotlight with Shirley Temple, King Kong, and Carmen Miranda; Bonnie and Clyde and Ridley Scott with Roshomon, Hitchcock, and Bresson. In Picturehouse Poems, one of our oldest art forms pays loving homage to one of our newest—the thrilling art of cinema.

Varietatea subiectelor este orbitoare, de la vedete de film la jucatori de biti, de la filme B la Bollywood, de la Clark Gable la Jean Cocteau. Peste o suta de poeti riff pe amintirile lor de film: Langston Hughes si John Updike pe teatrele tineretii lor, Jack Kerouac si Robert Lowell la Harpo Marx, Sharon Olds la Marilyn Monroe, Louise Erdrich la John Wayne, May Swenson la James Bond filme, Terrance Hayes la cinematograful negru timpuriu, Maxine Kumin la Casablanca si Richard Wilbur la Prizonierul din Zenda.