In what I hope will be the first of many contributions to the lovely poetry site The The, my sort-of-essay, How to Watch a Poem.
It begins like this*:
And goes on from there. You know where to go if you want to read more.
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*Actually, it begins with a photograph of Godard, which is the good and right way to begin.
It begins like this*:
(This post was to begin with a quote that I remember as having been said by the filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard: “You don’t read a film; you watch it”. While trying to chase down the quote, though, I found it had disappeared so effectively that I began to doubt both the words and the person to whom I was attributing it. Regardless of who said it and whether they said it that way, here it is, the quote as epigraph:)
You don’t read a film; you watch it.
And goes on from there. You know where to go if you want to read more.
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*Actually, it begins with a photograph of Godard, which is the good and right way to begin.
