Archive for September, 2006
Landscape of the Heart
Winter Passing, now out on DVD, is visually beautiful with skillful acting and slow-paced story telling. the lives portrayed are barren as a winter landscape, rife with drug and alcohol abuse, casual sex, self-injury, suicide attempted and suicide succeeded…in their attempts to block out lonliness and disappointment.
These lives are groping towards meaning and find it [...]
Poets on Place
A friend put Places of the Heart: Poets on Place into my hands as I worked on preparing a talk on the influence of place in my own poetry. I found Poets on Place so invaluable that I typed many pages of detailed notes to ruminate on.
It’s an attractive work replete with complementary elements to [...]
Unmasking Stereotypes through Strong Portrayals
What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell, available in both audiocasette and book format. Hours of juicy listening to a story of epic proportions following the effects through three generations of the sins of the mothers, fathers, and society before them.
Sometimes banal, but more often engrossing, What You Owe Me gives us a balanced [...]
Clarion Call of Love
Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, available as a DVD from the Broadway Theatre Archive, heavy on symbolism and thwarted love in Bohemian rural Russia some time ago…why should we care? Because the play shows so clearly so many ways that human beings fail themselves and others…so many ways love is leaned on, and then expires…from abuse, [...]
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