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Noir poetry


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    • Crime noir poetry
    • Poem noirs
    • Poems noir
    • Poetry noir
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    • found: Work cat.: Noir : erasure poetry anthology, 2013:p. 5 (noir erasure poetry) p. 7 (noir and erasure poetry) p. 9 (noir poets) pp. 112-120 (poets from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, India, New Zealand, and Sweden)
    • found: Meet the doctors: John Challis, via The Poetry School website, Dec. 30, 2016(the poem noir; a poem that contains the stylistic attributes, as well as a underlying moods of pessimism, anxiety and obsession, that are commonly found in the films noir of the 1940s and 1950s and later neo-noir films produced from the 1970s onwards; poems that I consider poem noirs)
    • found: NoirCon Poetry Contest, via Pulp serenade blog, posted Sept. 24, 2011, viewed Dec. 30, 2016(Noir Poetry is (1) Poetry that makes reference to the subject matter, dialog or style of film noir or the hardboiled detective genre, or, (2) Poetry that invokes stark urban landscapes and atmosphere, and which either alludes to crime and perilous attachments or else seems to bear dark knowledge of this territory, or (3) Poetry that tells the story of tortured souls - lovers, psychopaths, obsessives - driven down deadly paths, following desperate plans that are doomed to failure)
    • found: Book Depository web page for Nights of naked mannequins by Michael Lee Phillips, viewed Dec. 30, 2016(The author has indicated that the poems are Noir poems)
    • found: The Malpaís review, winter 2012-13:p. 6 (the poem noir) p. 7 (seven poems noir) p. 15 (poetry noir) p. 226 (A poem noir, then, is not, as some have supposed, just any poem that can pass for "dark". It is not gothic, not Grand Guignol, not melodramatic. It is not elegiac. It is not a poem of social-consciousness that turns us face to face with the world's grief. Noir cannot languish in depression ... Instead, noir bears some kinship with mid-century existentialism in its tearless, grim--or wry--acknowledgment that the individual must fend for himself in a universe devoid of moral order) p. 227 (the poem will speak of a voice stripped of all sentimentality, a voice of cool detachment. If it does not, it is not noir; always the poem noir will convey to us, or skirt the edge of, this bit of news: a crime has been committed, or will be, or might. It might be underway even now) spring 2013, p. 7 (poetry noir) p. 192 (noir poems; there is no one definition about what noir poetry is as a type of poem for the most part. Between the noir films and poems, we can see some correlations and influences from the former to the latter: social class issues; more narrative elements; a different level of characterizations; perhaps more dialogue that might be common in poetry; references back to previous films from the noir era; maybe some filmic techniques, or references to them; there are different kinds of noir poetry just as there are different types of noir films)
    • found: Three crime noir poems by outlaw poet Dennis Gulling, via Rockford poetry website, Dec. 30, 2016(the crime noir style poetry of Dennis Gulling; he has published his first full-length book of poetry)
    • notfound: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, ©2012
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