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- Flip Days
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Using Hollywood screenplay structure to illustrate a life in three acts, eighteen scenes, each with two poems as mirrors to action, filmmaker/poet Lawrence Bridges sequences through tragicomic plot twists and subplots to create a character-driven, novel-like book of lyric poems. An unnamed protagonist is torn from a lover, torn from himself, in perpetual transition while starting a new family, surrounded by a lively array of colleagues and friends as his career implodes, asserting his autonomy only to become part of life's "conspiracies." Strangers shift around him in a murky world beyond his control, a world with signs of indeterminacy and happenstance: Restaurant patrons smile innocently while thieves quietly rob, a death pact is used to escape a lover, disguised signals from space aliens announce that our enemies are now their allies. How do you tie up loose ends when characters we like are actually the bad guys? Bridges prods us to answer the main question: Can a man love as his world spells farewell? A unique, delightful read—an invitation to explore something new in what may be a new genre fusing some of the elements of screenplay with poetry. Today is already yesterday to tomorrow, in Flip Days.
Table of Contents
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- Dedication
- p. 11
- Blue, the Color
- p. 19
- Doppler Dream
- pp. 21-22
- The Rubber Band Days
- pp. 25-26
- Unassailable Jazz
- pp. 30-31
- Negative Exuberance
- pp. 32-33
- The Subplot.
- p. 39
- The Antagonist.
- p. 42
- Glass, Memory, Mirror
- pp. 46-47
- I Imagined You as a Little Old Man
- pp. 57-59
- That Spells Farewell
- p. 65
- Kiln and Arrow
- pp. 66-67
- The World Is Toil
- pp. 70-72
- Ajar, Kansas
- p. 75
- Tie Up Loose Ends.
- p. 81
- Free Association: Monoploy
- pp. 83-85
- About the Author
- p. 88
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597093590
Related ISBN(s)
9781597094665
MARC Record
OCLC
867795065
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No