"The Elephant of Silence collects ten interrelated essays about John Wall Barger's two aesthetic loves: poetry and film. His writing veers between criticism (on contemporary US poetry, arthouse films), craft discussion (making of poetry, art), autobiography, and awestruck appreciation. For Barger, the logic of poetry is, in part, to rub unlike things together. His essays foreground a hard-to-define word and compare artworks from a filmmaker and a poet to help understand that concept. A consideration of "coldness" asks how ...
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"The Elephant of Silence collects ten interrelated essays about John Wall Barger's two aesthetic loves: poetry and film. His writing veers between criticism (on contemporary US poetry, arthouse films), craft discussion (making of poetry, art), autobiography, and awestruck appreciation. For Barger, the logic of poetry is, in part, to rub unlike things together. His essays foreground a hard-to-define word and compare artworks from a filmmaker and a poet to help understand that concept. A consideration of "coldness" asks how Stanley Kubrick's films are like Louise Gl???uck's poems, while an essay on "underglimmer" considers in what ways Chris Marker's films resemble Bash???o's poems. Elsewhere, Lorca's notion of duende offers a lens to look at the struggle of marginalized artists, with examples drawn from cinema (the Polish film The Cremator, directed by Juraj Herz), painting (Francis Bacon's Study for a Self-Portrait), and poetry (Amiri Baraka's "Dope"). Parallel journeys take Barger from the Zone of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky to ideas about poetry and artmaking from William Carlos Williams, Mary Ruefle, and Tomas Transtr???omer, alongside an expansive supporting cast of writers, artists, and filmmakers. Written by a poet and passionate cinephile, The Elephant of Silence guides readers through idiosyncratic, fascinating pathways in which great art intermingles with its fellow travelers and dreamers"--
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