A benefit of this blog is that it has reunited me with Peter Levitt, a fellow poet and friend from my Buffalo days when, students, we were both writing up a storm, Peter, already with considerably greater gifts, including the wholly natural one of his spirited “voice,” which has grown more mature over the past […]
Daily Archives: April 27, 2009
Sergei M. Eisenstein declared John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln his favorite American film and, given the depth of its criticism of the American political landscape, it isn’t hard to see why. There is also the rural visual poetry that, early on, the film musters for the occasion. This was the first of Ford’s seven collaborations […]
Dennis Grunes 