In each poem in Scoring the Silent Film, Keith Montesano uses a
peripheral character in a film by such varied directors as Michael
Haneke, Steven Spielberg, Wes Craven and Ang Lee to draw a deeper
meaning from a fleeting scene. The poems make time stop-in the
middle of madness, violence, action-long enough for us to realize
how much a human life is worth. In doing so, Montesano turns the
rich history of film into brilliant, unforgettable poems. - Jesse
Lee Kercheval Though the poems in this ambitious collection spring
from the author's abiding love of movies, their obsession is
ultimately with our humanity. Violence-both realistic and
fantastic-is ever-present, and emerging from the looming shadow of
that violence are urgent meditations on empathy, inaction, fear,
faith, and guilt. Keith Montesano has mingled the mediums of film
and poetry and given us something utterly new. Scoring the Silent
Film unspools before us, a poetic tour-de-force, mesmerizing and
shot through with light. - Brian Barker The personas found in Keith
Montesano's Scoring the Silent Film are in the voices of victims,
neighbors, friends, and other shattered lives, some of who survive
wearing long scars of their traumas. And yet despite these
harrowing circumstances, Montesano's interpretations of characters
are rendered with a profound sense of empathy as he holds the lens
of his poetic gifts up close to the turbulent landscape of cinema
violence, and shows us that there is still the possibility of
blossoms among the ash. - Oliver de la Paz
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