The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them (A Poetry Speaks Experience) - Hardcover

Shinder, Jason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402205023 ISBN 13: 9781402205026

Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2008

Synopsis

Movies and poetry have been intertwined since the dawn of cinema. Poets have written about movies, and movie actors have written and been inspired by poetry. Selected by 42 acclaimed entertainers, The Poem I Turn To includes selections from Pulitizer Prize winners and Poets Laureate, as well as inspiring contemporary poets. Listen to compelling readings on the CD and read the actors' thoughts describing how poetry has affected their lives.

*HEAR
30 poems on one audio CD, including:
* Adam Arkin reading
Theodore Roethke's The Waking
* John Landis reading
Mark Twain's The War Prayer
* Lili Taylor reading
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
* Stacy Keach reading Shakespeare
And Many More

About this title

About the Author:

Jason Shinder's books include Lights, Camera, Poetry! and Best American Movie Writing, Every Room We Ever Slept In (a 1985 NY Public Library Noted Book) and Among Women (short listed for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry). He is also the director of The Writing Program at Sundance Institute.

From AudioFile:

This recording of poetry is accompanied by a text that includes the contributors' biographies and comments. The project, an anthology of favorite poems from actors and directors, is well intentioned but uneven. The text is a richer compilation of poems, as the recording contains barely a handful of poems--the text includes 80 poems, the recording only 15. While the text contains poems selected by actors noted for their interesting and trained voices, such as Kyra Sedgwick and Jane Fonda, their voices are not on the CD. Further, the readers who are on the recording do not do justice to the poems they selected. R.F. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402205023
• ISBN 13: 9781402205026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256