One wonders who these films are for. How about those new to poetry, then? Is a soapy rendering of the author’s life enough to prompt someone to pick up a volume of poems for the first time? I rather doubt it.
An overdeveloped instinct for drama will get you into trouble. It’ll drag you into any number of ill-advised commitments. It drew me to the passionate, ridiculous space opera of Muse, the baroque flourishes of Rufus Wainwright. To the finale of Dirty Dancing, to watch Titanic a second (third) time against my better judgement, to the...
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