DE HIRSCH, Storm; BROOMER, Stephen (ed.)
Mythology for the Soul: The Collected Poems of Storm De Hirsch

Storm De Hirsch was a poet, filmmaker and mystic. Her work arrived in the vacuum of American postwar poetry and with no clear affiliation. It was on the periphery of the east coast Beat movement, engaging punctuative declarations, onomatopoeia, chorus repetitions and sensual, ornithological and Cabalistic imagery. De Hirsch’s poems are shamanistic, bearing properties of the magic ritual and incantation, and her mysticism as well as her passions for new forms led her in the visionary direction of the New American Cinema. In underground cinema, De Hirsch recognized a new form for poetry, and the films that she made between 1962 and 1975 reflect this sensibility. She would refer to some of these films as “cine-songs” or “cine-sonnets.”

Mythology for the Soul is the first comprehensive collection of De Hirsch’s poetry.

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Published by Sightline Editions, 2018
Poetry / Film & Video