[Julie Steiner]

Oh. Heh. Can you recall some examples of poetic conservatism from your interactions with her?

(There's quite a bit of her work that I don't like, mainly because she experimented in ways that often didn't work. But I'm admittedly "way way too conservative" for my own good, myself, poetically speaking.)

[Mark McDonnell]

Julie,

Maz does sound wonderful. I'm sad again that I never got to know her, as I was after you first introduced her to me on the roller-coaster ride that was the Rupi Kaur thread.

[James Brancheau]

Haha, I'm glad you made that more specific. Yes, I can, but it was younger work that I've either heavily edited, or tossed long ago. Just not for her reasons. So, I'd be digging a bit deep into the guts of my early stuff. But certainly a pm would be welcome. (To put it in this, general way, I frequently disagree with rather poetically (and otherwise) conservative poets on this site, such as J Whitworth, but yet admire some of their work at the same time. I have doubts that maz let the door crack that far open.)

[R. S. Gwynn]

There should be a Pound movie, starring John Malkovich. But who would play the younger Pound now that Eric Stoltz is too old?

[James Brancheau]

Yeah, Malkovich seems a pretty natural choice, if he can refrain from being himself just a little, haha. For early years, I dunno, I imagine a young Gary Oldman. It pains me, really, to say this, but after watching Ghost Story, maybe Casey Affleck (sp?). It's a stretch, out of his range perhaps, but that's all I got.

[R. S. Gwynn]

Casey didn't act worth a sheet in that movie.

[James Brancheau]

That's good, Sam. Should be part of the movie review, though I did like it very much. I don't know, I never liked him much, and his brother's worse, maybe. Close call. But he did win best actor for a movie I never saw... Ok. I'll stick with my young Oldman pick.

[R. S. Gwynn]

I just saw him in Old Man with a Gun. He's a good actor. Ghost was, well, sort of interesting, but I understand his body-double did several scenes. It had the most static takes I've seen since Bergman. Mark Zuckerberg would make a good young Pound. Pound was quite the millennial.

[Roger Slater]

"it's hard to watch him performing with Mia Farrow now"

Not for me. I think Broadway Danny Rose is probably his most perfect film and gives us one of Mia Farrow's best acting performances ever.

[James Brancheau]

Never mind.