P. Adams Sitney is Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

passionate, deeply informed ... Sitney's style is at once erudite and accessible, and his insights into the works of these gifted artists are continually illuminating ... an elegantly crafted and carefully considered book.

• Preface ; Introduction: An Autobiography of Enthusiasms ; I ; Pier Paolo Pasolini and "The Cinema of 'Poetry'" ; Dimitri Kirsanoff's Menilmontant ; Ingmar Bergman's Primal Scene ; Andrey Tarkovsky's Concept of Poetry ; II ; Poetry and the American Avant-garde Cinema ; The Dialectict of Experience in Joseph Cornell's Films ; Lawrence Jordan's Magical Instructions ; Stan Brakhage's Poetics ; Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, and the Polyvalent Film ; Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos

P. Adams Sitney is Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

passionate, deeply informed ... Sitney's style is at once erudite and accessible, and his insights into the works of these gifted artists are continually illuminating ... an elegantly crafted and carefully considered book.

• Preface ; Introduction: An Autobiography of Enthusiasms ; I ; Pier Paolo Pasolini and "The Cinema of 'Poetry'" ; Dimitri Kirsanoff's Menilmontant ; Ingmar Bergman's Primal Scene ; Andrey Tarkovsky's Concept of Poetry ; II ; Poetry and the American Avant-garde Cinema ; The Dialectict of Experience in Joseph Cornell's Films ; Lawrence Jordan's Magical Instructions ; Stan Brakhage's Poetics ; Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, and the Polyvalent Film ; Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos