Splice

by Letitia Trent

The film critic falls asleep as the credits roll; the identities and images just concluded are now processed into dream configurations; the components arrange themselves in newly fractured and sinister fashion. Such a vignette could describe the lucent and aggressively beautiful project Letitia Trent has undertaken with the cinematic ekphrasis of Splice, in which the poet takes films varying in genre from American classics to European arthouse to J-horror, disassembles their narratives, and uses their iconic cells and essential tones to create rippled, frightening montage borne of Trent's cinephiliac passion and curiosity. They serve as evocative counterpoints to their sources—the mark of any successful ekphrasis.

Genres: Poetry

34 pages, ebook

First published January 31, 2011

About the author

Letitia Trent's books include the novels Almost Dark and Echo Lake, the poetry collection One Perfect Bird, and the chapbooks The Women in Charge and You aren't in this movie. Her work has appeared in 32 poems, Fence, Black Warrior Review, Diode, Smokelong Quarterly, and Sou'Wester, among others. Trent's short story, Wilderness, was nominated for a Shirley Jackson award and included in Best Horror of the Year Volume 8, edited by Ellen Datlow. Trent is part of the horror podcast The Brood. She lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, with her husband, son, and three black cats.

Photo by K Michelle Johnson

Reviews

[Letitia Trent]

Just added my own book not to be obnoxious, but to let people know I added a working link.