“Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.” KnowsWorldWantI CanBookBeautifulGivenLossGriefJourneyFindingsPagesPerformancesGenerousAgain And AgainFabulousPackagesEmily Author:Dorothea Lasky
“In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.” FeelsSometimesCasesPagesPerformancesMediumsPresentation Author:James Arthur
“As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).” GivingAbleStrongUnderstandingAbilityMajorsPagesConnectionsPerformancesStructureDetailsCommandHopefullyImpulseLatterSmallestRequirementsExpressiveRenderingTrajectory Author:Michael Hersch
“You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.” IfsTryingCharacterInterestingPagesPerformancesContradictionPortionsInteresting Characters Author:Joel Kinnaman
“I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.” ThinkingImportantStoriesBlackSpaceWhitePagesBeatsPerformancesBottomTimingPausesBlackoutsWhite Space Author:Sandra Cisneros
“All those awkward moments - that's on the cast for doing such an amazing job. I think it was funny on the page, but when they did it, you definitely went, "Oh!" Watching it with a crowd that, like you said, was not expecting it to be funny, but then genuinely finding it funny, is totally a credit to their performances.” ThinkingSaidMomentsJobsLike YouFindingsPagesPerformancesCastsCrowdsCreditExpectingAwkwardAmazing Job Author:Ti West