poetry has long infiltrated the novel
books by poets ,about poets,on poetic themes
attract like honey to the life of a bee
Virginia Woolf,William Faulkner , James Joyce wrote poetic novels
Lives of poets inspire prose writers,whose best efforts sing lines
like Arthur Rimbaud's (via Bruce Duffy)DISASTER WAS MY GOD.
John Clare's life (via Adam Fould)in THE QUICKENING MAZE
or fictionalized poets like Harry Quirk in Kate Christensen's THE ASTRAL
Parallels in film include Tom Conti as Dylan Thomas in REUBEN,REUBEN
Sean Connery in A FINE MADNESS,as well as the plethora of Beat movies
both fictional and some with actual poets or written by same (PULL MY DAISY)
all those Bukowsky flics,or biographies of THE LIVES OF POETS
THE GOSPELS OF ANARCHY,INFERNO,HUMBOLT's GIFT
reference poetry and poets as lifestyle and mode of response
Narrative poems have been filmed(MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER,THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE)
and filmic poetry constituted Arthur Cantrill's and much of the Canadian Film Board's output
Image and concision define both film and poem.Novels become screenplays
Poetry remains an ocean in a teardrop.
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