Although firmly rooted in the real, Lillian Necakov's evocations of 'movie magic' prove irresistible in these 40 Poems & 5 collages. Ranging across dozens of films -- from Wim Wenders Wings of Desire and Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law to Hitchcock's Rope and Hawks's To Have and Have Not, -- Lillian Necakov's language, steeped in the comic of the banal, has absurdity for breakfast.

We all watch movies and talk about movies. Lillian Necakov does us all one better and WRITES POETRY inspired by movies, movie characters, movie makers and movie stars. The poems in this collection are sharp and affecting word-pictures, less glossy conscious-of-their-glamour movie stills than candid snapshots of cinematic figures caught by surprise as they step naked from the shower. This is powerful, disarmingly intimate, and just plain cool poetry.
................-- Noel S. Baker
................ Screenwriter of Hard Core Logo and author of Hard Core Roadshow (Anansi, 1997)

ISBN 1-55245-963-2
Coach House Books, 1997

Lillian Necakov's work has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Canada Review, This Magazine, what and numerous other publications in Canada and the U.S. She is the founder and editor of Surrealist Poets Gardening Assoc. a small press which has been publishing erratically for the last 15 or so years.

She lives in Toronto and is currently working on a novel and a screenplay. Her earlier work includes The Sickbed of Dogs (Wolsak & Wynn 1989) and Tiny Elvis (Suburban Home(sick)made, 1995).

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POLAROIDS BY LILLIAN NECAKOV

Index of Poems