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The first collection of poetry by award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and composer Hal Hartley. Selected from writing amassed over thirty years, these pieces range from short, funny modernist lullabies and bawdy lyrics to the nearly mystical engagement of the obsessive reader, onward to helpless rants about the state of the world and deeply moving reflections upon, and remembrances of, lost friends and failed efforts. However, throughout, this collection is an extended examination of conscience-the conscience of a citizen, an artist, a businessman, a very private and exacting thinker, struggling with ""this gigantic love I only ever apologize for..."" ultra short stories textual snapshots situations described or imagined strangers contemplated real life adventures occasional complaints ache verbalized some examination of conscience mischief

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Hal Hartley is the writer, director and producer of numerous feature films. He received the best screenplay award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1998 for Henry Fool as well as prizes at Sundance (Trust), Tokyo (Amateur), Prague (Meanwhile) and Berlin (Ned Rifle). He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France and an alumnus of the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in New York City.

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