Epic

The Time that Remains

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The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I’m always in fear of not telling the right story. I’m … Read more

I think poets are

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I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we’re in the next important moment of television, where it’s really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th … Read more

Heroism is no extempore

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Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse–a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment’s insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,–but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character. Edwin Percy Whipple

But look at Avatar

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But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made – the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, \”If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we’re living in, … Read more