{"product_id":"blue-derek-jarman-poems-the-9781897109243","title":"Blue: Derek Jarman Poems, the","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Keith Garebian\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Signature Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Signature Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlue: The Derek Jarman Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e Keith Garebian, himself an insatiable cineaste, has masterfully spliced together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. Derek Jarman's final film, \u003ci\u003eBlue, \u003c\/i\u003e is a work without visuals except International Klein Blue, and it provides Garebian with an inspired backdrop against which he explores, in the book's poignant closing section, the filmmaker's descent into illness-induced blindness, charting his physical and emotional decline while also building towards a kind of defiant holy death equal to the passions of Jarman's most sacred martyrs: Caravaggio, St. Sebastian, and Jesus Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this life-affirming, cinematic, at turns randy and elegiac verse-biography, Keith Garebian celebrates one of the world's truly unforgettable and rebellious spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969717452951,"sku":"9781897109243","price":1066.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781897109243.webp?v=1782923532","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/blue-derek-jarman-poems-the-9781897109243","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}