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On Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali
Agha Shahid Ali Listen Durga dies in the rains, her tongue bitter with stolen fruit. Beyond the field, trains escape a boy’s dreams, run into the air. A necklace chains him to the water’s bones, turns...
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Cameo Appearance
Charles Simic Listen (to Simic read) I had a small, nonspeaking part In a bloody epic. I was one of the Bombed and fleeing humanity. In the distance our great leader Crowed like a rooster from a...
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Bruise
James Harms Listen Across the room behind the mirror he slips a quarter in the slot. She can’t see him, doesn’t want to, isn’t interested in being touched. How are you? she says; it’s what she always...
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‘The Prisoner of Shark Island’ with Paul Muni
John Berryman Listen Henry is old, old; for Henry remembers Mr Deeds’ tuba, & the Cameo, & the race in Ben Hur,—The Lost World, with sound, & The Man from Blankey’s, which he did not dig,...
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My Career as a Director
Bob Hicok Listen It’s the last moment of night in the theatre. The names of the best boy and key grip are floating towards heaven. The movie was about the paralyzing sadness of death and the last movie...
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TV Men: Lazarus
Anne Carson Listen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: VOICEOVER Yes I admit to a degree of unease about my motives in making this documentary. Mere prurience of a kind that is all too common nowadays in public...
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Ave Maria
Frank O’Hara Listen Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to it’s true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the...
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Hitchcock
B. H. Fairchild Listen Before the lights went out, looking back in a full house, you must have seen old faces, child-like with expectancy. The strangest things can happen. Here. And then you knew we...
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Noir
A. E. Stallings Listen Late at night, One of us sometimes has said, Watching a movie in black and white, Of the vivid figures quick upon the screen, “Surely by now all of them are dead”— The yapping,...
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Chaplinesque
Hart Crane Listen We will make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consolations As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample pockets. For we can still love the world, who find A...
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