Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: An autobiography of enthusiasms
  • Part 1. Poetry and the narrative cinema in Europe
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini and "the cinema of 'poetry'"
  • Dimitri Kirsanoff's Ménilmontant
  • Ingmar Bergman's Primal scene
  • Andrey Tarkovsky's concept of poetry
  • Part 2. Poetry and the American avant-garde cinema
  • The dialectic of experience in Joseph Cornell's films
  • Lawrence Jordan's Magical instructions
  • Stan Brakhage's poetics
  • 8 Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, and the polyvalent film
  • Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos.