In Perpetuity

Authors

  • Gary D. Rhodes University of Central Florida Author

Keywords:

poetry, time, eternity, the present, endings

Abstract

In this poem, a series of terse commands gives way to a meditation on an eternal present in which time never passes into the past and endings are a fable.

Author Biography

  • Gary D. Rhodes, University of Central Florida

    Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Associate Professor of Film and Mass Media at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (IAP, 2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (Bloomsbury, 2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (Edinburgh UP, 2018), as well as the editor of such anthologies as Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row(Lexington, 2008), The Films of Joseph H. Lewis (Wayne State University, 2012), and The Films of Budd Boetticher (Edinburgh UP, 2017). Rhodes is also the writer-director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood’s Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Forthcoming from Edinburgh UP is Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial, coauthored with Robert Singer.

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Published

2019-10-10

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Rhodes, Gary D. “In Perpetuity”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, p. 264, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/705.