I dreamed it last night: a trailer for a film about the poet Frank O’Hara. The title: A Controversial Thing in the Past. The trailer showed nothing but yellow taxis, shot from below. “Please not with James Franco,” I thought.
The obvious influences: the “the hum-colored / cabs” of O’Hara’s “A Step Away from Them,” the circumstances of his death, the 2010 movie Howl.
I wondered about a source for the title, but Google returns nothing for “a controversial thing in the past .”
There is a short film of Frank O’Hara independent of this dream.
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Friday, January 9, 2015
A film trailer in a dream
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Name of your novel?
I had a dream about drowning-yet-not-drowning in the "cold Sargasso Sea." I swear that at the time I had never heard of the Sargasso Sea or of the Jean Rhys novel.
Nope, no novel in me.
That’s uncanny about the sea. Maybe you had seen the Pound poem ?
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