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...
HAROLD SCHECHTER is a professor emeritus of American literature and culture at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of several mystery novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe, as well as coeditor of three previous Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet volumes. He lives in New York City.
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EDITOR BIOGRAPHY
MICHAEL WATERS’s poetry collections include the Los Angeles Times
Book Prize finalist Darling Vulgarity and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems. His honours include fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and five Pushcart Prizes. He is a former professor at Monmouth University and Drew University.
MIHAELA MOSCALIUC is the author of the poetry collections Father Dirt, Immigrant Model and Cemetery Ink. An associate professor at Monmouth University, she has published in the field of Romani (Gypsy) studies and is the recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner and a Fulbright fellowship.
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