These poems seek out the intimate stranger in ourselves and each other, finding as well the sense of absence alive in the midst of all deeper experience. That may be beyond our rationale understanding, but it is opportune, even compelling, for the imagination and for love, its scars the beauty marks of a joy fleeting and universal. These poems report that oldest and latest news.

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin, as well as, in the sound era, the historical epics Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible--he also was a theorist whose insights into the workings of film were so powerful that they remain influential for both filmmakers and scholars today.
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