Shona Auerbach: Creating Poetry on Screen (2015)

Thoughts on film, artistry, intuition, and communicating meaning.

In Emerson’s poetry anthology Parnassus, he describes poetry as “a force of few words,” one that “requires that splendor of expression which carries with it the proof of great thoughts.”¹ Poetry must be concise; it must use word pictures that suggest and inspire thoughts in the reader far beyond the words written on the page. At times in film, the vast …