After Cocteau

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by Carolyn Miller

Type

Essays

Subject

One Film > Beauty and the Beast

Keywords

Jean Cocteau, poetry

Publishing date

2002

Publisher

Sixteen Rivers Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 81 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-9707370-3-3
978-0-9707370-3-8

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Book Presentation:
In the title poem of this collection, based on a scene from Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film La Belle et la Bête , Beauty’s father falls asleep in the castle of the Beast, although the room he dozes in is alive with magic. The poems in After Cocteau are testaments to the miracles that surround us, from the natural world to the world of art. The narrative arc of the book moves from California to the Missouri Ozarks and back to the coast again. Along the way, we meet other travelers on the "dark path": Amelia Earhart, an aging cat, Salvador Dali­. This beautiful collection ends with a meditation on the water-lily paintings of Monet, and the way that art and nature can reconcile us to the mingled joy and grief of our existence.

About the Author:
Carolyn Miller is a book editor, writer, and painter living in San Francisco. Constant Lover, a letterpress, limited-edition collection of her poems, was published by Protean Press in 2001. Her chapbook, The Reluctant Dinner Guest, was also published by Protean Press. Her poetry has received several honors, including the James Boatwright III Award for Poetry from Shenandoah and the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3. She leads writing workshops in San Francisco and at La Serranía, a retreat center on the island of Mallorca.

Press Reviews:
" . . . generous, capacious poems, anchored in the simple mysteries of earth and in our experience of impermanence and sensuous delight." -- Margaret Gibson

" . . . poems of sensual celebration and penetrating hope. . . . Generous and intelligent, this book is vibrant with emotional integrity and grace." -- Laure-Anne Bosselaar

"Rife with sensual language, with themes that embrace life while accepting death . . . [these] poems . . . ground . . . "big questions" in lived reality". -- Tom Bowden, The Education Digest, July 8, 2002

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