Poetry Goes to the Movies: An Anthology (Pacific Coast Poetry Series)

Poetry Goes to the Movies, an anthology of national reach, with poems exploring aspects of individual films, the movie-going experience, movies and memory, and in context of the larger culture, as well as "the industry" and the behind-the-scenes production end. Poets featured include D. A. Powell, Lynn Emanuel, Ed Hirsch, Martín Espada, Dorothy Barresi, John Murillo, Tim Seibles, Kim Addonizio and A. Van Jordan. In Poetry Goes to the Movies, poets of Los Angeles, along with noted poets from across the country, re-imagine, recollect, pay homage to, or argue against, movies and the many figures connected to them. Responding to movies from Nosferatu (1922) to Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), these voices express something of the concerns and manners of our times. And then there are those moods that never go out of style, the tenderness, pathos, bawdy mischief, bouts of dissatisfaction and, sometimes, surpassing wonder.