Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies

by Harold Schechter

A unique Pocket Poets anthology of a hundred years of poetic tributes to the silver screen, from the silent film era to the present.

The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101908033
• ISBN13: 9781101908037
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.0" x 6.3"