Focusing on important films of the 1960's and 70's, both Hollywood productionS and foreign film--works which Bachand argues helped, ironically, to save the studio system through their directorial integrity and independent mindedness--Bachand deconstructs and reconstructs these images of light and shadow. In her recreated linguistic worlds "all is consequence," as "every photograph" becomes a kind of "detective story." As in the poem "give it to me," based on Antonioni's Blow Up, the poet asks the reader not just to seek out clues, but to look within, to explore the self that defines this world of images: "Close your eyes./It's good for you."

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

Long involved in the experimental literary scene in Los Angeles, luce a cavallo is Thérèse Bachand's first published collection. Daughter of the Ephemeral Word (i.e.press) is forthcoming in 2010. Her work has been anthologized in The PIP Anthology of World Poetry #5 - Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California, and published in many journals, including area sneaks, Beyond Baroque, Brooklyn Rail, chain, el pobre mouse, minor American, Mirage #4 Period(ical), Primary Writing, and Tinfish. In 2002, she collaborated with Diane Ward and organized a group of LA woman poets who meet periodically on a casual basis.

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