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Sam Rasnake
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Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…
12/12: The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick, dir., 2011

Malick is a poet with a camera. This film is a wonderful labyrinth. Not my favorite film by Malick, but a beautiful poem masquerading as a film.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 12/12: The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick, dir., 2011 Malick is a poet with a camera. This film is a wonderful labyrinth. Not my favorite film by Malick, but a beautiful poem masquerading as a film.
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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There’s carrying the weight of poetry into the modern world – and then, of course,

many children were told and some believed that when the war was over
the emperor would wipe away their tears
with his own hand.
Anne Carson
#poetry #writer
There’s carrying the weight of poetry into the modern world – and then, of course, many children were told and some believed that when the war was over the emperor would wipe away their tears with his own hand. Anne Carson
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

11/12: The Double Life of Veronique / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir., 1991

A brilliant work. Kieślowski is one of my favorite filmmakers.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 11/12: The Double Life of Veronique / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir., 1991 A brilliant work. Kieślowski is one of my favorite filmmakers.
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I ran up six flights of stairs
to my small furnished room
opened the window
and began throwing out
those things most important in life

First to go, Truth, squealing like a fink:
“Don’t! I’ll tell awful things about you!”
“Oh yeah? Well, I’ve nothing to hide... OUT!”
Gregory Corso
#poetry #writer
I ran up six flights of stairs to my small furnished room opened the window and began throwing out those things most important in life First to go, Truth, squealing like a fink: “Don’t! I’ll tell awful things about you!” “Oh yeah? Well, I’ve nothing to hide ... OUT!” Gregory Corso
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

10/12: My Dinner with André / Louis Malle, dir., 1981

A learning experience. Perfect in its symmetry.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 10/12: My Dinner with André / Louis Malle, dir., 1981 A learning experience. Perfect in its symmetry.
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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It’s supposed to be prose if it runs on and on, isn’t it? All those words, too many to fall into rank and file, stumbling bareassed drunk onto the field reporting for duty, yessir, spilling out as shamelessly as the glut from a megabillion dollar chemical facility
Rita Dove
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It’s supposed to be prose if it runs on and on, isn’t it? All those words, too many to fall into rank and file, stumbling bareassed drunk onto the field reporting for duty, yessir, spilling out as shamelessly as the glut from a megabillion dollar chemical facility Rita Dove
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Hello, Dad.
San Antonio, Texas, c. 1951
Hello, Dad. San Antonio, Texas, c. 1951
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

9/12: Killer of Sheep / Charles Burnett, dir., 1978

A unique film experience.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 9/12: Killer of Sheep / Charles Burnett, dir., 1978 A unique film experience.
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The artist is always beginning.
Ezra Pound
#poetry #writer
The artist is always beginning. Ezra Pound The artist is always beginning. Ezra Pound The artist is always beginning. Ezra Pound
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

8/12: News from Home / Chantal Akerman, dir., 1976

Marvelous documentary. Great filmmaker.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 8/12: News from Home / Chantal Akerman, dir., 1976 Marvelous documentary. Great filmmaker.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,
Death's great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?

By day, from the surrounding woods,
cherries blow summer into town;
at night the deep transparent skies
glitter with new galaxies.
Anna Akhmatova

Tr. S Kunitz...
Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, Death's great black wing scrapes the air, Misery gnaws to the bone. Why then do we not despair? By day, from the surrounding woods, cherries blow summer into town; at night the deep transparent skies glitter with new galaxies. Anna Akhmatova Tr. Stanley Kunitz, with Max Hayward
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

7/12: Mirror / Andrei Tarkovsky, dir., 1975

A must-see film.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 7/12: Mirror / Andrei Tarkovsky, dir., 1975 A must-see film.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language
e. e. cummings
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next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn’s early my country ’tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language e. e. cummings
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

6/12: 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick, dir., 1968

Of course, Kubrick’s masterwork must be on this list.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 6/12: 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick, dir., 1968 Of course, Kubrick’s masterwork must be on this list.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I am an instrument in the shape
of a woman trying to translate pulsations
into images for the relief of the body
and the reconstruction of the mind.
Adrienne Rich
#writer #poetry
I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind. Adrienne Rich
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

5/12: Winter Light / Ingmar Bergman, dir., 1963
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Ah… Bergman. One of his best.
12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 5/12: Winter Light / Ingmar Bergman, dir., 1963 Ah… Bergman. One of his best.
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The late evening crow
of deep autumn longing
suddenly cries out

Yosa Buson
#poetry #writer
[Tr. Sam Hamill; art, Landscape with House by Buson ]
The late evening crow of deep autumn longing suddenly cries out Yosa Buson [Tr. Sam Hamill; art, Landscape with House by Buson ]
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

4/12: A Man Escaped / Robert Bresson, dir., 1956

One of the most unique filmmakers in the history of cinema.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 4/12: A Man Escaped / Robert Bresson, dir., 1956 One of the most unique filmmakers in the history of cinema.
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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So it has come to this –
insomnia at 3:15 A.M.,
the clock tolling its engine

like a frog following
a sundial yet having an electric
seizure at the quarter hour.

The business of words keeps me awake.
Anne Sexton
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So it has come to this – insomnia at 3:15 A.M., the clock tolling its engine like a frog following a sundial yet having an electric seizure at the quarter hour. The business of words keeps me awake. Anne Sexton
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Bresson at work on Au hasard Balthazar.
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

3/12: Meshes of the Afternoon / Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied, dirs., 1943

A major work in a small package… The original version was silent. A soundtrack composed by Teiji Ito was added in 1959.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 3/12: Meshes of the Afternoon / Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied, dirs., 1943 A major work in a small package… The original version was silent. A soundtrack composed by Teiji Ito was added in 1959.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Alone with our madness and favorite flower
We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things
In the same way, repeating the same things over and over
For love to continue and be gradually different.
John Ashbery
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Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same things over and over For love to continue and be gradually different. John Ashbery
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

2/12: Vampyr / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir., 1930
More related to the metaphysical than to horror - but one of Dreyer's best films.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 2/12: Vampyr / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir., 1930 More related to the metaphysical than to horror - but one of Dreyer's best films.
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…

2/12: Vampyr / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir., 1930
More related to the metaphysical than to horror - but one of Dreyer's best films.
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12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 2/12: Vampyr / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir., 1930 More related to the metaphysical than to horror - but one of Dreyer's best films.
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Windows give up their secrets,
Not mirrors.
Laura Riding Jackson
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Windows give up their secrets, Not mirrors. Laura Riding Jackson
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM