Description
Poetry. Drama. Film Studies. "THE MESHES, by quadruple hyphenate Brittany Billmeyer-Finn (poet-playwright-community organizer-arts educator) is a creative four-part record of the author's imaginative engagement with the films and aesthetics of the late Maya Deren (1917-1961). Deren was an experimental filmmaker whose artistic practice was influenced greatly by the Imagist poets' belief that the best free verse conjures up for the reader concrete visual impressions and emotional experiences. This is exactly what Billmeyer-Finn's work achieves: across the poetry, prose, polyphonic performance, and polyvocal bibliography contained herein, Billmeyer-Finn's use of language is immediately evocative of the compelling images and salient issues inspired by Deren's oneiric, choreographic, and nonfiction films."—Renata Jackson
Author Bio
Brittany Billmeyer–Finn is a queer poet and playwright living in Northampton, MA, where she is an aspiring social worker in the Smith MSW program. Her full length book, THE MESHES, written through the filmography of Maya Deren is out from Black Radish Books. In 2015, she directed her first play, the meshes: an iteration in 2 acts at SAFEhouse Arts in SF. She continues to investigate a queer poetics through an occult lens on various blogs. Her tract SLABS from Timeless Infinite Light is set in pockets, in containers, near water, in the body, and is about queer love.
Author City: NORTHAMPTON, MA USA