Barry:
I'm greatful for the way you "channel" these
poems, bringing so much forward!
Gerald S.
DIVA DOLOROSA
[via Peter Delpeut]
did not exist without pain
in a matchless style.
"Venom of love once more poured into her heart."
"A thousand flames
deliver you,
overcome" by the double insanity.
Live
on. In you
recognized, it will break
"only in death--can we really belong to each other?"
Slowly "the pale of death passes over".
Allowed "the wind in her seven veils" to "sing a rhapsody of death".
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 10-12-05 (12:43 AM)
The Dutch director Peter Delpeut constructed his definitive image of the
dolorous diva from her embodiment within 14 Italian silent films. Although
silent films usually defeat my attempt to construct a piece of writing
during my viewing experience, there was a large enough pool of language in
the assorted intertitles remaining within Delpeut's final version for my
acrostic to flesh itself out.
Unlike the earlier "Forbidden Quest" (also constructed out of an almost
equal number of found silent films), however, "Diva Doloroso" lacked a
framing scenario written by Delpeut. I felt more of a need to distance
myself in this instance from the romantic diction selected by chance; hence
the larger quantity of overt quotation marks.
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