My Life on Film New Release Dancing Bear reaches back into

Dancing Bear reaches back into mythical times to show us how we have arrived at this moment in our political and social landscape

—Dean Rader

Drawing on a life of experience as top lawyer

and utterly necessary

Berdeshevsky writes poems commensurate with her vision

My Life on Film New Release Dancing Bear reaches back intoHelen 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