{"product_id":"after-8-books-zoe-lund-poems","title":"Zoë Lund – Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e presents \r\nfour unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund \r\n(1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, \r\nrevealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well\r\n as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the \r\nfirst publication dedicated to her work.\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\t\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003eTranslated into French by Stephanie LaCava and \r\nManon Lutanie, and presented in a bilingual volume (English, French), \r\nthe poems are introduced by Stephanie LaCava, who retraces their genesis\r\n and examines the personality of their author:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\"She is unsure of her identity, but hints at certain proclivities: \r\naction as the only true form of activism (sustained readiness to \r\nstrike); a taste for contradictory characters (strength exists where \r\nthere is also cowardice); romance. [...] Uninterested in mute beauty, \r\nLund wanted to write and produce her own projects. In a news clipping \r\nfrom 1983, titled `Young Political Filmmaker Shooting at Mount Holyoke,`\r\n there is a striking picture of Lund `working on a film about the \r\nradicalization of a young woman,` per the caption. The article talks of \r\nher `uncompromising idealism` and feelings about the naïveté of both \r\nAmerican liberals and leftists.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThree years later, in 1986, `Touchstone Levity` was written, and [...], \r\nthe same year, \"Opium Wars.\" The latter speaks to Lund`s interest in \r\ndrugs (she had a taste for heroin and would die of heart failure at \r\nthirty-seven).\"\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPrinted offset in Italy on a matte, natural paper, stapled, the book \r\nalso features black-and-white pictures of Lund taken in Paris by the \r\nfilmmaker, critic, and activist Édouard de Laurot, then the author`s \r\npartner, in the early 1980s. It`s striking to see her in Paris on these \r\nimages, smoking and posing in front of the Eiffel Tower, disheveled in a\r\n nightclub, caught on camera at a shooting range, at such a young \r\nage—when we know she would die in Paris fifteen years later. It seemed \r\nright to choose these images to accompany the poems, which were written \r\nin the same decade, and in the context of this French-American \r\npublication.\r\n\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\r\n\r\n\"They`ll never understand why you did it.\r\nThey`ll just forget about you tomorrow.\r\nBut you gotta do it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nZoë Lund, \"The Vampire Speech,\" \u003cem\u003eBad Lieutenant\u003c\/em\u003e, 1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZoë Lund (née Tamerlis) was an American writer, screenwriter, director, \r\nactress, and model, born in New York City in 1962. From a young age, she\r\n was a talented musician, composer, and a bright student with an \r\ninclination toward political activism. She dropped out of school at the \r\nage of 15. She made her acting debut in Abel Ferrara`s cult \u003cem\u003eMs .45\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n (1981). From 1980 to 1985, she was the partner and collaborator of the \r\nfilmmaker, critic, and activist Édouard de Laurot—best known for his \r\nfilm with Malcolm X, \u003cem\u003eBlack Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e (1967). She appeared in several other feature films and television shows in the 1980s, including Larry Cohen`s \u003cem\u003eSpecial Effects\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMiami Vice\u003c\/em\u003e. She married Robert Lund in 1986. Lund wrote and starred in Ferrara`s \u003cem\u003eBad Lieutenant\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), in which she addressed her addiction to heroin. Among her many film and television screenplays is the first draft of \u003cem\u003eNew Rose Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e (1998). She wrote and directed the short film \u003cem\u003eHot Ticket\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n (1996), in which her character`s last line says: \"That which is not \r\nyet, but ought to be, is more real than that which merely is.\" She died \r\nin Paris in 1999, at the age of 37, of heart failure due to cocaine use,\r\n leaving behind several unpublished novels, short stories, essays, and \r\nscreenplays that remain unproduced.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"After 8 Books","offers":[{"title":"Stück","offer_id":57261539950969,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/4510\/8345\/files\/zo-lund-poems-books-import-424-1745-2.png?v=1778662845","url":"https:\/\/saalhof1123.com\/products\/after-8-books-zoe-lund-poems","provider":"SAALHOF 1123","version":"1.0","type":"link"}