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Cabaret (1972 film): Five ekphrastic prose poems
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posted on 2023-06-26, 06:09 authored by Cassandra AthertonCassandra Atherton, Paul HetheringtonCabaret (1972 film): Five ekphrastic prose poems
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Background The human sense of touch is ‘the first sense to develop in the womb and the last sense one loses with age’ and yet it is often the most overlooked of the senses (Krishna 2012: 335). There is a special intimacy associated with touch because our skin is required to make physical contact in order to register touch – and, unlike the other senses, we have the ability to sense touch all over our bodies. This is one of the reasons why the somatic pleasure of touch has serious consequences when it is unwanted or forced; when it is a negative touch. This portfolio addresses the sense of touch as primal. Contribution This portfolio makes intertextual use of both Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (1977) and Maggie Nelson’s Bluets (2009) to explore powerful responses to sex through the charged utterances of love and heartbreak. Stephen M Phelps asks, ‘Can we learn how a fleeting touch drives a frenzied heart, or why the delay between contact and withdrawal can span a decade? An answer worthy of our effort should begin at the skin’s surface, yet somehow end in poetry’ (2017: n.p.). This portfolio honours that notion. Significance This was a commissioned piece. We were approached by the editor as "experts in ekphrastic poetry" and we decided to write on a film, rather than on the usual transitional visual art, mostly paintings.Publication classification
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