Mischief

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The first collection of poetry by award-winning filmmaker screenwriter playwright novelist and composer Hal Hartley.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Selected from writing amassed over thirty years these pieces range from short funny modernist lullabies and bawdy lyrics to the nearly mystical engagement of the obsessive reader onward to helpless rants about the state of the world and deeply moving reflections upon and remembrances of lost friends and failed efforts. However throughout this collection is an extended examination of conscience-the conscience of a citizen an artist a businessman a very private and exacting thinker struggling with this gigantic love I only ever apologize for...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ultra short stories</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>textual snapshots</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>situations described or imagined</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>strangers contemplated</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>real life adventures</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>occasional complaints</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ache verbalized</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>some examination of conscience</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>mischief</span></p><p></p>