Flip Days
Autor Lawrence BRIDGESen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2009
Using Hollywood screenplay structure to illustrate a life in three acts, eighteen scenes, each with two poems as mirrors to action, filmmaker/poet Lawrence Bridges sequences through tragicomic plot twists and subplots to create a character-driven, novel-like book of lyric poems. An unnamed protagonist is torn from a lover, torn from himself, in perpetual transition while starting a new family, surrounded by a lively array of colleagues and friends as his career implodes, asserting his autonomy only to become part of life's "conspiracies." Strangers shift around him in a murky world beyond his control, a world with signs of indeterminacy and happenstance: Restaurant patrons smile innocently while thieves quietly rob, a death pact is used to escape a lover, disguised signals from space aliens announce that our enemies are now their allies. How do you tie up loose ends when characters we like are actually the bad guys? Bridges prods us to answer the main question: Can a man love as his world spells farewell? A unique, delightful read—an invitation to explore something new in what may be a new genre fusing some of the elements of screenplay with poetry. Today is already yesterday to tomorrow, in Flip Days.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781597094665
ISBN-10: 1597094668
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Red Hen Press
Colecția Red Hen Press
ISBN-10: 1597094668
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Red Hen Press
Colecția Red Hen Press
Recenzii
Dissociative Poet! Dis-sociative?! - when the ruling motif is precisely the opposite, when what we are struck by, again and again and again is the intuitive wizardry of lightening associations, association, junctions, segues, startling linkages that make you see as you've never seen before and think as you've never thought before! As feel as you've never felt before. And very often jump out of you skin! "Our profiles are what make us look strange." There is pure lyricism, the beautiful "Winter Object: Oath of Silence," wherein the images are Yeatslike. Elsewhere, this lovely phrase" "All the cells want to be flowers." All the cells want to be flowers. Oh, to have written that!”
—Cynthia Ozick
—Cynthia Ozick
Notă biografică
Lawrence Bridges lives Los Angeles, California. This is his second book of poems from Red Hen Press. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and most recently, The Tampa Review. Bridges founded the acclaimed film and design studio, Red Car, and has directed several hundred commercials and music videos, features and documentaries. Stanley Kubrick has called his work in film "visual poetry.” More recently, he directed a series of six documentaries on prominent American authors for the NEA's “Big Read” initiative, which include Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Rudolfo Anaya, Ernest J. Gaines, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick.
Cuprins
1 - ESTABLISH MOOD AND ENVIRONMENT.
Like Letting Babies Live With Gravediggers 8
Blue, The Color 11
2 - ESTABLISH PLACE AND TIME. WHERE.
Doppler Dream 13
Example 15
3 - WHO. MAIN CHARACTERS.
The Rubber Band Days 17
Mail 19
4 - MAIN CHARACTER’S GOAL.
Unassailable Jazz 22
Negative Exuberance 24
5 - A PLOT TWIST SETS THE STORY IN MOTION.
The Poet Who Carried A Hubcap Among Briefcases 26
On Love After A Passage 29
6 - THE SUBPLOT.
Flight 31
Legendary Forgetfulness 32
7 - THE ANTAGONIST.
The Helicopter Dreams 34
The Capitalist In His Cab 35
8 - CONFLICT.
Glass, Memory, Mirror 37
The Night Puts The Relentless & Invisible
Vocation Of Seeking To Sleep 38
ACT 2
9 - CHECK FOR MOMENTUM.
“Here Is What It Would Have Been Like, Captured On Film” 40
The Individual Is A Thesaurus 41
10 - A TWIST IN THE SUBPLOT.
Lament 43
Three Split Infinitives: Luck 44
11 - ANOTHER MAIN PLOT TWIST.
I Imagined You As A Little Old Man 46
Winter Object 49
12 - RELIEF.
Gallery Incident: A Picture Tells What You Did All Afternoon In Response To The Sunlight 51
Skylight 52
13 - ANOTHER SUBPLOT TWIST (STRONGEST).
That Spells Farewell 54
Kiln and Arrow 55
14 - ANOTHER MAIN PLOT TWIST (STRONGEST).
True Calling: Pleasure Piece 58
The World is Toil 59
ACT 3
15 - COME FULL CIRCLE RAPIDLY AND CONCLUDE.
Ajar, Kansas 62
Or And One 63
16 - END SUBPLOT BEFORE CLIMAX.
Door To The Empty Store 66
Bought Me 67
17 - TIE UP LOOSE ENDS.
Level 11 69
Free Association: Monoploy 70
18 - ANSWER THE MAIN QUESTION.
Like Letting Babies Live With Gravediggers 8
Blue, The Color 11
2 - ESTABLISH PLACE AND TIME. WHERE.
Doppler Dream 13
Example 15
3 - WHO. MAIN CHARACTERS.
The Rubber Band Days 17
Mail 19
4 - MAIN CHARACTER’S GOAL.
Unassailable Jazz 22
Negative Exuberance 24
5 - A PLOT TWIST SETS THE STORY IN MOTION.
The Poet Who Carried A Hubcap Among Briefcases 26
On Love After A Passage 29
6 - THE SUBPLOT.
Flight 31
Legendary Forgetfulness 32
7 - THE ANTAGONIST.
The Helicopter Dreams 34
The Capitalist In His Cab 35
8 - CONFLICT.
Glass, Memory, Mirror 37
The Night Puts The Relentless & Invisible
Vocation Of Seeking To Sleep 38
ACT 2
9 - CHECK FOR MOMENTUM.
“Here Is What It Would Have Been Like, Captured On Film” 40
The Individual Is A Thesaurus 41
10 - A TWIST IN THE SUBPLOT.
Lament 43
Three Split Infinitives: Luck 44
11 - ANOTHER MAIN PLOT TWIST.
I Imagined You As A Little Old Man 46
Winter Object 49
12 - RELIEF.
Gallery Incident: A Picture Tells What You Did All Afternoon In Response To The Sunlight 51
Skylight 52
13 - ANOTHER SUBPLOT TWIST (STRONGEST).
That Spells Farewell 54
Kiln and Arrow 55
14 - ANOTHER MAIN PLOT TWIST (STRONGEST).
True Calling: Pleasure Piece 58
The World is Toil 59
ACT 3
15 - COME FULL CIRCLE RAPIDLY AND CONCLUDE.
Ajar, Kansas 62
Or And One 63
16 - END SUBPLOT BEFORE CLIMAX.
Door To The Empty Store 66
Bought Me 67
17 - TIE UP LOOSE ENDS.
Level 11 69
Free Association: Monoploy 70
18 - ANSWER THE MAIN QUESTION.