Tag: Gregory Giles
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// cover reveal
I’m elated to share this cover with you: I’ve heard horror stories about covers, but so far I’m three for three. The photograph is by the mega-talented Brian Adams of Alaska, and I love what Penguin did with the design, which resonates with the poems on multiple levels. Here’s a recent interview with Adams. And…
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// caves & insta
I’m happy to report Berfrois just published the tenth film essay in the occasional series Gregory Giles and I co-created, this time on social media spectatorship and trekking through the world’s largest cave: Straightjacketed into Spectatorship; or, the Image of Seeing a Cave IRL I also recently wrote a blog for the Northwest Center…
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// berfrois: the book
Berfrois: The Book is officially out! If you’ll be in PDX for AWP this week, you can get your copy at the bookfair. Gregory Giles and I do our part to insert environmental commentary into everything with a conversational essay on horror films The Last Winter (2006) and The Thaw (2009), the documentary Chasing…
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// tortured genius
People often said that he finished sentences for me. Well, he did. He was between me and the world. He not only answered the telephone; he finished my sentences. He was the baffle between me and the world at large. —Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold ICYMI, my latest film conversation…
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// bodies in thin air
ICYMI, Greg and I published the sixth conversational essay in our occasional series for Berfrois—this time about valuing property over people, the limits of revenge, and the possibilities of resistance: I don’t think we can maintain our humanity when we dehumanize others, warehouse them, and pay our taxes to agents of the state to…
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// elephants wouldn’t wonder
Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…
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// the bottom of lake powell
If you haven’t been following along at home, Greg Giles and I accidentally started an occasional conversational essay series on films with environmental and food justice themes, and Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts has been kind enough to keep publishing it. Russell seems like a good guy. I’ve never met him and have no idea…
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// imperfect yields
Early digital video, the aging feminine, and whether Kerouac got it right—film-obsessed writer/musician Gregory Giles and I published a second conversation in our occasional series on works with environmental and food justice themes. Our Cosmetically Imperfect Yields; or, Agnès Varda’s Loose Grip on Gleaning …
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 