Currently reading
Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
The Glass Key
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
Accent on Form: An Anticipation of the Science of Tomorrow
The Expert versus the Object: Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts
War and Peace
The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1992
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition)
Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers
Lessons With Eisenstein
like Pound, Goethe, Shakespeare, Dante, da Vinci, Wang Wei, et al, Eisenstein absorbed whole lakes of culture and civilization and sweated out diamonds defining the time and times, then and since.More or less denied access to his medium of cinema by Stalin, he took to teaching and writing. Perhaps "Film Form/Film Sense" might be a better place for some to begin (with "Film Sense" being many people's favorites). You can skim or skip over the obligatory references he makes to revolutionary Soviet history without signficiant loss, but his work's still has dynamic today as over 75 years ago.
