The Cineaste

by A. Van Jordan

Book Overview

A. Van Jordan, an acclaimed American poet and the author of three previous volumes, "demonstrates poetry's power to be at once intimate and wide-ranging" (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World). In this penetrating new work he takes us with him to the movies, where history reverberates and characters are larger than life. The Cineaste is an entrancing montage of poems, wherein film serves as the setting for contemplative trances, memoir, and pure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393348733
• ISBN13: 9780393348736
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"