Picturehouse Poems
Poems About the Movies
$27.39
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2019
Summary
A unique Pocket Poets anthology of a hundred years of poetic tributes to the silver screen, from the silent film era to the present.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841598147 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841598143 |
| Author: | Harold Schechter, Michael Waters |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 165mm x 110mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
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About The Author
Harold Schechter
Michael Waters has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Wired, Slate, and Vox, among other publications. He was the 2021-2022 New York Public Library Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar in LGBTQ studies and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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