%0 Journal Article %T The Poetry Of Reversibility And The Other In The English Patient %A Gerry Coulter %J Wide Screen %D 2009 %I Subaltern Media %X Those who lament the disappearance of poetry in our time would do well to look for its reappearance as cinema, for example Minghella¡¯s The English Patient. Poetry was once a place for the ¡°irruption of the body into the repressive interiorised space of language¡± and today, as visual languages become increasingly important, we find poetry (once oral, then written) moving increasingly into the visual. %K poetry %K cinema %U http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/15/14