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taking us right there with her in her daily flashes of life

—Dean Rader

and utterly necessary

Berdeshevsky writes poems commensurate with her vision

My Life on Film New Release taking us right there withHelen Degen Cohen was an authentic cineaste with an insatiable appetite for film, but especially the films of Fellini, Pasolini, Bresson, Ozu, Godard, Zhang Yimou, Bela Tarr, and Parajanov, all of whose work she celebrates, often ekphrastically, in My Life on Film, a posthumous collection of 53 poems. My life on film, she writes, is everything that has ever floated through me, and we witness that parade in this volume that is truly an insomnia of