Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema

Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema. Film adaptations of poems and depictions of poets on the screen date back to the silent era and continue to the present day. However, there have been few serious studies of how cinema has represented the world of poetic expression.

In Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema, Marlisa Santos has compiled essays that explore ...