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Lavender Ink / Dilogos, paperback

Publication Date: March 1, 2025

Publisher Marketing: A Movie, a book-length poem written in sentences, explores the ways movies are woven into the fabric of a life, as cultural products, as objects of intimacy, as social touchstones, as an ideal, as shorthand for certain kinds of experience, while also telling the story of the poet’s production of an eighteen-minute vampire movie.”In A Movie, Courtney Bush presents us with a screen upon which we can view her virtuosic intelligence, pathos and wit, heart and ear in action. The result, A Movie, helps us understand that movies really are actually everything. I mean, really, everything! Movies are the magical invocations to a changed and better life. They’re also products of impromptu corporations’ intent on capitalizing upon our innermost signatures of feeling. They’re projected on the universe’s biggest screens and they’re on in the background while we’re doing something, anything, else. But above all, movies are things that we make, in the basement, in the classroom, in the studio and the streets. Like poetry they are the things we do with our friends. I left the theater of A Movie with wet and salty cheekstears of celebration of what this book has taught us and tears of gratitude for giving me the urgent feeling that I must immediately deliver my life kinetically into poetrythe highest compliment I can give.” Brandon Brown, poet, translator, author of the Four Seasons