Blue: Derek Jarman Poems, the Contributor(s): Garebian, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897109245 ISBN-13: 9781897109243 Publisher: Signature Editions OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
Dewey: 811.6 |
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6.23" W x 8.99" (0.42 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems, Keith Garebian, himself an insatiable cineaste, has masterfully spliced together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. Derek Jarman's final film, Blue, is a work without visuals except International Klein Blue, and it provides Garebian with an inspired backdrop against which he explores, in the book's poignant closing section, the filmmaker's descent into illness-induced blindness, charting his physical and emotional decline while also building towards a kind of defiant holy death equal to the passions of Jarman's most sacred martyrs: Caravaggio, St. Sebastian, and Jesus Christ. In this life-affirming, cinematic, at turns randy and elegiac verse-biography, Keith Garebian celebrates one of the world's truly unforgettable and rebellious spirits. |