To anyone who knows Miles Coon, the founder and director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, it should come as no surprise to learn that Coon starts off a phone conversation with a recitation of “A Lock of Her Hair,” by renowed American poet Robert Wrigley. Wrigley is one of the luminaries — including Chard deNiord, Linda Gregerson, Thomas Lux, Maurice Manning, Molly Peacock, … [Read more...]
The View From Home 37: New releases on DVD, April 10-24
As the axiom goes, you’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you. During his quest, which began in 2000, to urge the SEC to investigate Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, Harry Markopolos was indeed a paranoid man. Toppling one of the kingpins of Wall Street is not an enviable job, Markopolos suggests in Chasing Madoff (MPI, $24.99 Blu-ray, $22.99 DVD), the recently … [Read more...]
The View From Home 7: New releases on DVD
Stagecoach (Criterion) Release date: May 25 Standard list price: $30.99 As the legend goes, John Ford’s Stagecoach established the Western as an A picture, reviving it from its creatively moribund inception as disposable, one-dimensional nickelodeon fare and elevating it to the lofty standards of Whitmanesque poetry and pre-Wellesian compositional virtuosity that all of our … [Read more...]