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Subject: Oscar Wilde Duration: 1 Week Reference Materials: Dorian Gray (a.k.a. The Secret of Dorian Gray a.k.a. The Sins of Dorian Gray), The Fan (1949), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), An Ideal Husband (1947), Lady Windermere's Fan (1925), Oscar Wilde (1960) and The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) Life Quote: "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what 'fiction' means." Extra Credit: Wilde (1997)
Subject: Screenwriter John Gay Duration: 1 Week and 3 Days Reference Materials: Dial M for Murder (1981), Final Notice, Kill Me If You Can, No Way to Treat a Lady, A Piano for Mrs. Cimino, Primal Secrets (a.k.a. Trick of the Eye), The Red Badge of Courage, Run Silent Run Deep, Shadow of a Doubt (1991), Six Against the Rock and Summer of Fear Life Quote: "One false snip and you've lost the illusion forever." Extra Credit: Diversions and Delights
Subject: Pier Paolo Pasolini Duration: 6 days Reference Materials: Accattone, La Rabbia (The Anger), "La ricotta" from Ro.Go.Pa.G, "La sequenza del fiore di carta" ("The Sequence of the Paper Flower") from Love and Anger, "Le mura di Sana'a" ("The Walls of Sana'a"), Teorema, and Abel Ferara's Pasolini Life Quote: "He had to die to remind us that he was alive." Extra Credit: The Gospel According to St. Matthew, and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Subject: Lizabeth Scott Duration: 8 days Reference Materials: Bad for Each Other, Dark City, Dead Reckoning, Loving You, Paid in Full, Pitfall, Stolen Face, Silver Lode, Too Late for Tears a.k.a. Killer Bait, Two of a Kind and You Came Along Life Quote: "Sometimes a gal on her own doesn't know what she's getting into until it's too late.“ Extra Credit: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Subject: Salome movies Duration: 5 days Reference Materials: Clive Barker's Salome (1973), Salome (1910), Salome (1923), Salome (1953), Salome, Where She Danced (1945) Life Quote: "The desperate can only survive by taking desperate measures." Extra Credit: Salome's Last Dance (1988)
Subject: Screenwriter Mel Dinelli Duration: 1 Week, 2 Days Reference Materials: Beware, My Lovely; Cause for Alarm!, General Electric Theater: "Into the Night"; House by the River; The Reckless Moment, The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Spiral Staircase (2000); Startime: "The Man"; Step Down to Terror; The Window Life Quote: "People like me had no idea what the world was really like." Extra Credit: The 20th Century-Fox Hour: "A Portrait of Murder" (a.k.a. "Laura"); and the script for the Broadway production of The Man (1950).
Subject: A Quiet Place movies Duration: 3 Days Reference Materials: A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place: Day One, A Quiet Place Part II Life Quote: "We're all gonna die."
Subject: Gordon Parks Duration: 5 Days Reference Materials: "Flávio," The Learning Tree, Shaft, Shaft's Big Score!, The Super Cops and The World of Piri Thomas Life Quote: "Come on world, share."
Press Roundup for Fassbinder: His Movies, My Poems
Bay Area Reporter: "Creative, memorable, and thought-provoking, this poetic salute impressively appreciates the genre-spanning oeuvre of a multi-talented, theatrical German cinematographer."
Fahmidan Journal: "...ot just a re-imagining of Fassbinder's films but a deeper meditation on the themes that underpinned them."
The Georgetown Voice: "...captures the sizzling essence of the director’s sizable oeuvre."
Guts Publishing Blog: "I developed a poetic obsession with the late German filmmaker and queer iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder." (author essay)
Hamilton Arts & Letters: "Pisarra makes this book encompassing and relevant via robust craft, smarts, and compelling poetic storytelling."
Harpur Palate: "I especially like how it blurred the line between film and poetry while drawing upon the works of Fassbinder to communicate the personal." (interview)
Headcanon: "This collection subverts poetry at every turn." (interview)
John V.'s Eclectic Avenue: "...a series of bold, intelligent, razor-sharp and sensual pieces which celebrate Pisarra’s love for the work of avant-garde filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
London Grip: "...irreverent and playful, occasionally erotic."
Misfit Magazine: "...an extraordinary accomplishment..."
Modern Literature: "The work informs, entertains, amuses, reflects and instructs with equal ability."
Other Terrain: "...a provocative, honest, and ultimately human expression of the lecherous pull of self-hatred and the internal conflict that follows."
Out in Print: "...so interesting and creative."
Ovunque Siamo: "...leaves us questioning humanity and our motivations for survival"
Sacred Chickens: "Pisarra creates his own filmic universe in this volume; visual, moving, and concrete."
Unlikely Stories Mark V: "...reminiscent, in a scaled down, modern way, of Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues." NOT ONLINE
Eighth Day: "...might be Pisarra’s most accomplished to date."
Subject: The Qatsi Trilogy Duration: 3 Days Reference Materials: Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi Life Quote: "...a state of life that calls for another way of living."
Press Roundup for Periodic Boyfriends
Analog Science Fiction & Fact: "The land of the dead, like the realm of the microscopic, may be invisible to the naked eye, but it’s still there." (interview)
Chelsea Community News: "The poems run the gamut from sneakily humorous to outright hilarity to loss and longing, and sometimes encompass all of the above in a single entry."
CultureSonar: "...a masterpiece of love, lust, loss, and acceptance."
Full House Literary: "This collection of poetry should be on your must read list."
GCN: "...strangely beautiful in its resolve."
Highland Park Poetry: "Pisarra is skilled at emulating the classic moves of the Shakespearean sonnet, deploying enjambment to dazzle his audience..."
John V’s Eclectic Avenue: "...eloquent and masterfully constructed sonnets."
Loch Raven Review: "Much like punk culture, the most provocative, daring, and honest art often comes from the LGBT+ community. Periodic Boyfriends is no exception to this rule."
The London Grip: "Rabelaisian, witty, wistful and intelligent, Drew Pisarra’s poems are a delight to read."
Misfit Magazine: "Pisarra has written a one-of a kind collection of gay 'love poems' that even a straight person can love."
Modern Literature: "...there is no time better than now for reading this voluptuous collection of sensual poetry."
Modern Literature (part 2): "Why do you always write about sex?" (interview)
Ocean State Review: "If you want to celebrate pride by reading something by a queer author that will make you laugh, gasp, and give you what the kids call 'the feels', and make you go, 'Huh? Huh!', then I highly recommend it."
Other Terrain: "The humanness of this collection is striking, that cannot be understated."
Out in Print: "These poems exist beyond their origins, all 118 of them." Ovunque Siamo: "Pisarra shows not only a keen understanding of chemistry theory and poetic craft, but of psychology and human relationships. These poems are, by turns, incisive, beautiful, salacious, wistful, and flat-out entertaining." (not online)
Penumbra Journal of Literature and Art: "The work is sexual and heady, but brings much more than that to the table the deeper one reads."
Sacred Chickens: "It’s a rare writer who can combine laughter and tragedy, light and darkness, not only in the same poem, but in the same sentence. Drew Pisarra is that writer."
Vagabond City: "Pisarra’s poetry playfully explores a wide swath of experiences and feelings, making the collection’s specific vision all the more impressive and admirable."
The Washington Blade: "...like hanging out on a summer’s night with the acclaimed queer poet Frank O’Hara and Dorothy Parker."
Your Impossible Voice: "Everything changed for me once I’d experienced Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers." (interview)
Subject: Bill Oberst, Jr. Duration: 7 Days Reference Materials: At Granny’s House; The Chair; Dis; A Haunting in Salem; Painkiller; The Parish; Resolution; and Strange Company Life Quote: "You needed a knife."
Subject: Sleepaway Camp series Duration: 3 Days Reference Materials: Sleepaway Camp; Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers; and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland Life Quote: “If I had known all that happened, I would never have come here.”
Subject: Charlie Chan movies (w/Sidney Toler) Duration: 2 Weeks Reference Materials: Black Magic, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, Charlie Chan in Honolulu, Charlie Chan in Panama, Charlie Chan in Reno, Charlie Chan in Rio, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise, Dangerous Money, Dark Alibi, Dead Men Tell, The Jade Mask, Murder Over New York, The Scarlet Clue, and The Trap Life Quote: "One scholar in family better than two detectives." Extra Credit: Castle in the Desert
Subject: Eugene O’Neill movies Duration: 9 Days Reference Materials: Ah, Wilderness! (1976), Anna Christie (silent, 1923), The Constant Woman (inspired by Recklessness), The Hairy Ape (1944), The Iceman Cometh (1960), The Long Voyage Home (1940), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), and “The Letter” (inspired by “Before Breakfast”) from Three Dramas (2020) Life Quote: "Death was so common, it didn’t mean anything." Extra Credit: Anna Christie (1930) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
Subject: Anna May Wong Duration: 8 days Reference Materials: A Study in Scarlet, Elstree Calling, Impact, Island of Lost Men, King of Chinatown, Lady from Chungking, When You Were Born, and two episodes of The Barbara Stanwyck Show: “Dragon by the Tail” and “Hong Kong and Little Joe” Life Quote: "If she was ever deceitful, it was to protect someone else." Extra Credit: Daughter of the Dragon
Subject: Dorothy Arzner Duration: 4 days Reference Materials: Craig’s Wife; Dance, Girl, Dance; First Comes Courage; Get Your Man and Working Girls Life Quote: "Imagine an innocent girl, in an age where there aren’t any."