Life keeps hurtling forward, bursting forth. It’s spring in California, the jasmine’s come in and the streaky roses. It’s been raining hard all morning; just now it stopped abruptly. Lyn writes in My Life, “she observed that detail minutely, as if it were botanical. As if words could unite an ardent intellect with the external material world.” This is Lyn, vitally observing, drawing it all into relation, the mind and the world, botanical, passionate. Making words hold life, making words as life. “Such that art is inseparable from the search for reality,” she writes.
Frank Kuenstler's films
@ PennSound Cinema
Paradise
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108867
Country Su Casa
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108885
Color Idioms
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108868
El Atlantis
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108883
Frank Kuenstler (1928-1996) was a poet best known for his remarkable LENS (1964, published by Film Culture; available in full from Eclipse). While Kuenstler's work as a film maker was rumored, the films themeselves only surfaced recently, ...