I’m not sure when I first ran across the reference to noir poetry. Several years ago, I read a novel in verse form, The Long Ride by Robin Robertson. I can’t say Robertson was a noir poet so much as he’d written a noir novel as poetry.
Recently, I read another reference, so I decided to find out what it was about. Noir novelists I knew about – Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, writer usually associated with crime stories from the 1920s to the 1950s. And noir movies, movies like Notorious, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Maltese Falcon, Strangers on a Train, Laura, Double Indemnity, and Sunset Boulevard. (My favorite noir movie, though, was released in 1974 – Chinatown, with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
But noir poetry?
Yes, as it turns out.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
“Ballet School,” poem by Babette Deutsch – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
A Little Free Library – poem by Karen An-hwei Lee at Rabbit Room Poetry.
The film – poem by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
“Faithless Nelly Gray,” poem by Thomas Hood – Joseph Bottum at Pomes Ancient and Modern.
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