Cinematic Reveries

Essayist, teacher, and critic of art films, Linda C. Ehrlich has written extensively about Asian and European cinema. Her commentary on the Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena, director Víctor Erice) appears on the Criterion DVD of the film. She has edited The Cinema of Víctor Erice and co-edited Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan. Cinematic Reveries reveals another of her talents – her creative output as a poet. She has published works in international literary journals and three collections of poetry: In the Breathing Time, Night Harbour, and Bodegón. Currently, she is engaged in connecting her poetry to the theme of dance on screen.

«The poet William Blake invited us ‘to see the world in a grain of sand.’ In ‘Cinematic Reveries’, a haunting, exquisitely sensitive collection of prose poems, Linda C. Ehrlich invites us to contemplate a vast array of deeply rooted, evocative images that have the power to release us from the tyranny of quotidian reality. Inspired by film and a wide range of readings, this collection will prompt you to look at children, Jerusalem, Chaplin, Garbo, and even the Wicked Witch of the West in ways you never imagined. It also will inspire you to embrace the images that have long lingered in your own life.» (Arthur Nolletti, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Film Studies and English, Framingham State University, Massachusetts)