Dissolve: Screenplays to the Films of Stan Brakhage

Roark, Randy

ISBN 10: 1885089163 / ISBN 13: 9781885089168

Published by Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.: Cityful Press, 2002, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dissolve: Screenplays to the Films of Stan Brakhage
• Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.: Cityful Press, 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885089163
• ISBN 13: 9781885089168
• Binding: Trade Paperback
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Synopsis

These poems, set as screenplays to Brakage's films, were written during a comprehensive retrospective screening in the Boulder, Colorado Public Library over a 7 month run between 2001-2002. Roark sets out to collaborate, wrestle, and dialogue with Brakhage's large opus of film. Along with comments by Brakhage at the beginning of poems, Roark's work dissolves and reconstructs itself towards towards the long poem narrative tradition of Pound's Cantos.

About the Author

Randy Roark came to Boulder in 1979 to apprentice with the poet Allen Ginsberg, who was then assembling his Collected Poems, and continued to work with the poet in various capacities until his death in 1997. His studies have led him to Italy to study Pound's work with Olga Rudge, Dublin to study Joyce with Joyce's nephew. Roark is the author of Awakening Osiris (Selva Editions), and Mona' Lisa's Veil (Baksun Press, 2001).
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His literary arts magazine, Friction, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Robert Creeley in 1985. He currently edits the online magazine For Immediate Release, FIR's circulation has reached over 10,000 subscribers through Poetz .com web site. Roark is a producer and editor for Sounds True, and audio book publisher in Louisville, Colorado.