Poetry and Film: Artistic Kinship Between Arsenii and Andrei Tarkovsky

Book excerpt: Andrei Tarkovsky is widely regarded as one of the most significant filmmakers of modern times. Fundamental to his practice are the poems that his father, Arsenii, created. They resonate through many of the films, and offer levels of meaning which lie hidden to the unknowing eye. For the first time this book presents not only accurate and beautiful renditions of these poems in English, but also a penetrating and illuminating presentation of the creative relationship between father and son that informed so much of Andrei Tarkovsky's work.--Tate Publishing.