Glorious Birds

Cinematic film, the art form that came into its own in the 20th Century, is not only familiar to all of us, but is likely the form that lodges most clearly in memory. Like music – and the music employed in a film – scenes come back, often carrying emotion as well as remembrance.

One such film is Harold and Maude, the 1971 production that brought Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon to what are possibly their most memorable roles, and the film that locked so many Cat Stevens songs in mind. A cockeyed love story that stretches the definition of a May/December romance, it reveals the fact that love can indeed be blind to matters of age or appearance.

This book takes us back half a century to when this one-of-a-kind film was released – a time with its own kind of turmoil, but a time as well of a different kind of innocence – one worth exploring again. Fifty years, traditionally a golden anniversary, is surely an appropriate time to celebrate.

AUTHOR

Heidi Greco

Heidi Greco is a longtime resident of Surrey, BC. In addition to writing and editing, she often leads workshops – on topics that range from ekphrastic poetry to chapbook making. She’s been an advocate for the literary arts in her community and was instrumental in establishing two distinct reading series, but she considers her greatest success to have been convincing her city to hire an official Poet Laureate. She writes in many genres – with poems, fiction, essays and book reviews to her credit. Her books include a novella, SHRINKING VIOLETS which was co-winner of the Ken Klonsky Award in 2011. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, most recently in MAKE IT TRUE: POETRY FROM CASCADIA (Leaf Press, 2015) and THE REVOLVING CITY 51 POEMS AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM (Anvil, 2015). In addition to making Sunday suppers for her adult sons, she keeps a sporadic blog at outonthebiglimb.blogspot.ca.