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South Korean drama Poetry explores the beauty and nastiness of life

In recent years, there have been few national cinemas as intriguing and accomplished as South Korean cinema.

Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho, the directors of Oldboy and The Host, are among the world’s finest directors of genre film. While Lee Chang-dong isn’t a genre filmmaker and is not quite the same caliber a director as his South Korean brethren, his latest film, Poetry is the kind of complex, quiet character study that you won’t find in North America.

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Poetic justice: Saskatoon’s prison literature

It’s rare that people can tap into the artistic dimensions of a prison inmate’s mind. A publication from the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre is altering this reality.

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Canadian avant-garde poet promises his audience a ”˜pyrotechnic experience’

His volume Eunoia is the best-selling collection of Canadian poetry of all time. His sound poetry will blow your mind. As for his current project: he’s writing a poem that will persist after the sun explodes.

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The mother of all Dadas

The Baroness Else Von Freytag-Loringhoven is a relatively obscure historical figure.
Though she ran in artistic circles which included Ezra Pound, Marcel Duchamp and William Carlos Williams, the influence of her life and art has been largely unacknowledged. In the early 20th century, the Baroness (who acquired her title from one of her numerous husbands, a German baron) brought Dada to America.

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