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Van Jordan, an acclaimed American poet and the author of three previous volumes, “demonstrates poetry’s power to be at once intimate and wide-ranging” (Robert Pinsky, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e). In this penetrating new work he takes us with him to the movies, where history reverberates and characters are larger than life. \u003ci\u003eThe Cineaste\u003c\/i\u003e is an entrancing montage of poems, wherein film serves as the setting for contemplative trances, memoir, and pure fantasy. At its center is a sonnet sequence that imagines the struggle of pioneer filmmaker Oscar Micheaux against D. W. Griffith’s \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, which Micheaux saw not only as racist but also as the start of a powerful new art form. “Sharpen the focus in your lens, and you \/ Sharpen your view of the world; you can see \/ How people inhabit space in their lives, \/ How the skin of Negroes and whites both play \/ With light.” Scenes and characters from films such as \u003ci\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStranger than Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Year at Marienbad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Train Robbery\u003c\/i\u003e also come to luminous life in this vibrant new collection. \u003ci\u003eThe Cineaste\u003c\/i\u003e is an extended riff on Jordan’s life as a moviegoer and a brilliant exploration of film, poetry, race, and the elusiveness of reverie.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom “Last Year at Marienbad”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA place, though visible, is like a ghost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eof memories. 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