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...Every scene bulges at the celluloid seams with suggestive possibility. Each is a geometric poem of spatial awareness, the juxtaposition of animate and inanimate. As mother and son sit down for dinner, half of their fish tank fills the bottom right of the screen, and a ghostly white fish swims in and out of the frame. As Hsaio-kang watches Truffaut, the TV set is, again, placed at bottom right. Chen and Cecilia Yip's heads line up diagonally on a pillow before they kiss. Even the chairs in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens have armrests that rise at 45 degrees from...
...don’t know that when you’re young. There was all the usual schlocky stuff, like Robert Browning, that I just couldn’t get my mind around. And then there was a very slim volume called, The Waste Land and Other Poems, by T.S. Eliot. And I thought, I’ve heard of him, I’ll pick it up and have a read. I began reading the very first poem in the book, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?...
...Often, lately it’s been that I come up with a line I like while I’m walking and I like the sound of it and I’ll write it down and the poem eventually comes from that. I don’t think of a subject first, it’s initially the line that gets me interested...
...write poems with attention to what sounds good. Sometimes this means that they will have meter or rhyme. Right now I’ve been writing poems using syllabics where each stanza has a pattern of numbers of syllables in each lines—a haiku is a type of syllabic poem. Marianne Moore uses this form a lot in her early poetry. She’s known for precision, she’s interested in classification of things...
Everyone knows the phrase about “knowing something as well as the back of your hand.” And we all can identify something—be it a favorite poem or baseball glove—that we know that well. But how many of us actually know the backs of our hands...