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A. Jay Adler

A. Jay Adler, a New Yorker always, did his graduate work at Columbia University and is professor of English at Los Angeles Southwest College. His poetry has appeared in Pebble Lake Review, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Eclipse, and Poetrybay. He has published reference essays on the poetry of Carolyn Kizer and Paul Zimmer, and his screenplay What We Were Thinking Of won second prize at the 1999 Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition. He was also the recipient of a 2002 residency grant in poetry from the Vermont Studio Center. Adler's latest work is the book-length essay Left Bereft: September 11, 2001 and the Politics of the Moral Imagination.

in issue 53

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Jean Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows — "Whether alone or with others, you live with yourself."

in issue 51

A History of Violence: A Minimum of Thought
"A whole load of ‘Aw' with not a lot of ‘shucks,' updated only by a little cunnilingus."

in issue 49

The Disturbance of the Real: Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen
How real is the director's much-vaunted "multilayered depiction of reality"?

in issue 45

The Altered State of War: Heaven, Hell, and the Structure of the Combat Film
"The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir."

in issue 40

Together Again for the First Time: Movies holding mirrors up to movies
Imitation: great for flattery, bad for art