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Definition Dance
Purists mumble “linking narratives are not novels-in-verse!!!” while cuddling their threadbare Lucile. Now, let’s take a moment to sort these concerns out.
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Janet Holmes' Green Tuxedo
She’s Ahsahta’s controversial editor; we often forget Janet Holmes is also a poet of remarkable talent. Her work belongs in our ongoing discussion of image and poetry.
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Narratives Cultivated and Wild
Where is the dividing line between “cultivated narratives,” and those which simply grow up wild and organic from the lives of their creators?
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Techniques for Verse Action!
Why and, more importantly, how are novels-in-verse so devastatingly effective in portraying action? Let’s look at techniques used in History: The Home Movie.
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Illustrated Poetry
What if poetry books were illustrated in the same way as altered books? Would we read differently? Are words strengthened or weakened by the introduction of image?
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Lyric Narrative Electric
Before the age of the novel, much of history and literature was written in narrative verse. With the resurgence of book-length poems, we return to our Homeric roots.
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Narrative Beginnings
The entry piece to a book-length narrative poem holds even more importance than it would in a general collection. Mary Jo Bang and Ruth Whitman share a technique.
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Narrative Beginnings I I I
How do poets subtly introduce background information to a narrative while maintaining poetic integrity? In Les Murray’s gritty drama, Fredy Neptune, photos help.
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Narrative Beginnings I V
In Ultima Thule, poet Davis McCombs creates a delicate and sophisticated novel-in-verse by breaking the rule that says poems should be unnoted and self-contained.
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Narrative Beginnings II
Alice Notley and Ellen Bryant Voigt make us live their works, but how? Let’s face it; a book length poem is daunting.
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The Criminal Life of Effie O
Illustrated poem, novel-in-verse, Sam Savage has written a children’s book for adults. With simple, deft verse he sketched out characters readers can really care about.
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Anne Carson's Monster
In her novel-in-verse, Autobiography of Red, why has Anne Carson harnessed creatures from Ancient Greece to tell a story of adolescent love in modern Canada?
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The Poet's Way of Knowing
Only the truly great get Pulitzers by writing about cubicles, backyards and coffeepots. If "write what you know" still applies, how can the rest of us jazz it up?
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History, Trauma and Memory II
The second part of this three-part series of articles will explore the processes by which historical narratives are in or excluded from collective consciousness.
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History, Trauma and Memory III
This third and last article in this series will explore the potential of breaking the silence with which so many have lived for too long.
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Ex-porn star's film at Tribeca
NYC festival gives honourable mention to animated documentary Topor and Me.
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Great True Stories
From Truman Capote to lesser-known authors, this list of narrative non-fiction stories will keep you absorbed and perhaps lead you to revisit the stories in the future.
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Phone Plays at Humana Festival
Performance art based on overheard conversations at the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays in Lousisville, Kentucky.
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Shifting Viewpoints Part Two
The article Shifting Viewpoints dealt with moving house, from an Indigenous point of view. Part Two is about what happens when you get to the other end...
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Classical Music for Children
It's never too early to begin introducing children to Western Art music and several composers have created pieces with a younger audience's tastes expressly in mind.
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Mason-Dixon Knitting
A review of the latest knitting book by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne entitled "Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters' Guide"
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Writing Scripts or Directing Them
There's a very fine line between writing a well-detailed script and over-writing a script that may offend a potential director.
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Play It Again, Sam: Music's Role
An analysis of music's role during script creation. When, how, and why to use this production tool for video and the new technology is discussed, as well as presently available resources and copyright cautions.
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Sally Morgan - Aboriginal Artist
A suggested outline for a critical analysis of Sally Morgan's silkscreen print "Taken Away." The work evokes a feeling of searching for a sense of identity and place.
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The Daughters of Freya
Authors Michael Betcherman and David Diamond offer an addictive story in a refreshingly original format, as a journalist's hunt for the truth unfolds via email exchanges
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"Prime Time Live" Re-writes Civil War History
How <i>Prime Time Live</i> is an agent in distoring American Civil War history
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Expressing a Culture in Fabrics
Fabric as an expression of culture through the ages.
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Book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver's "A Year in the Life" details how her family attempted to eat only foods produced within a 100-mile radius of their farm in Virginia. How did they do?
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Casablanca's Corner Men
The WGA crowns Casablanca the greatest screenplay of all time - a script that had more collaborators than Vichy France.
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Easter Oratorios
From the glorious Handel to the mysterious Pärt, the Easter season offers the excuse to explore music commemorating the passion and resurrection of Christ.
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Eyes Wide Shut Re-Examined
Kubrick's untimely death, a controversial studio digital edit and unfounded public expectations damaged the reputation of one of the director's greatest masterpieces.
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Futureproof and Hope
What are the prospects for the two newly formed groups in the second round of the competition? Parallels with Chantelle winning 'Celebrity Big Brother' are inevitable...
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In Focus: Director Peter Weir
Profile of Peter Weir, one of Australia's finest film directors.
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The Edge by Dick Francis
A quirky mix of Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar, Agatha Christie and hardboiled detective fiction, The Edge is one of Francis' most unusual novels, and is a memorable read.
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The Fifth League: <I>Hitchhiking Through Southern France </I>
The fifth in a series of seven reviews of on-line tales of hitch-hiking, that are lengthy enough to call books.
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