It's a long career of doing this kind of thing I also admire, Barry. A poetics of response I guess youdc all it….
I may have seen that film on Nowlan, a poet of the vernacular, who did not theorize his poetics much, as I recall. He was very popular in the 60s & 70s in Canada…
Doug
On 2011-09-23, at 12:26 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. In this case, it's what I saw because I was encountering the Kyrgyz language for the first time and had to mine the subtitles. The director wrote the screenplay with a collaborator, so I am catching voices which he created. Since Kyrgyzstan officially selected this film for competition within the Academy Award, one could assume that one of the best translators subtitled it, but I still found myself editing the lines netted by the acrostic somewhat severely.
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> I decided to see this particular film in part because I found myself merely 1.5 miles away from where it was to be shown (the Freer Gallery of Art) after witnessing a talk by Ann Hamilton at the National Gallery of Art. I took a much more casual approach towards writing within the film screening than I did for the writing I did while Ann Hamilton was talking. Revising the original draft of LIGHT THIEF became a warm-up for the more demanding work required by my two simultaneous drafts of SAY, ANN HAMILTON.
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> Perhaps you've seen Alden Nowlan's A SENSE OF POETRY (1975, 18 minutes) which I have a chance to catch at the NGA tomorrow while I'm already in the immediate area for the National Book Festival?
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> Barry
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