I thought I’d like to write a little treatment about a poet, a working-class guy in Paterson who’s actually a very good poet but not a known one. And I thought that’s just a beautiful idea. But at the beginning of it, a man is a metaphor for the city of Paterson, and vice-versa. ![]() book Paterson, by the way, is not one of my favorite poems-in fact, it goes over my head, I don’t understand a lot of it. And it’s incredibly varied in terms of its demographics, the variety of people there. It’s a fascinating place: It was like Alexander Hamilton’s vision of a new industrial city, based around the power from the waterfall, kind of an intended utopian city. I went to the falls there, and I walked around and saw the industrial parts of it. I was drawn there by William Carlos Williams, a doctor and a poet whose work I liked. Jim Jarmusch: I went on a day trip to Paterson 20, 25 years ago. Did you set out to make a film specifically about poets and poetry? TIME: I understand that you came up with the basic treatment for Paterson a long time ago. Here, Jarmusch explains how Paterson came to be, describes his admiration for the work actors do, and offers a mini reading list for anyone out there who may be a poetry lover, but just doesn’t know it yet. (The poems in Paterson, in fact, were written by New York School poet Ron Padgett.) Jarmusch has drawn on that love, and more, to make a picture that shows how art-maybe even especially art made in the margins-can fill up everyday life. He’s a fan, in particular, of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, members of what’s commonly known as the New York School of poets. For example, a box of Ohio Blue Tip matches sparks a meditation on the pure, quiet love he feels for his wife, Laura ( Golshifteh Farahani), a charming, stay-at-home DIY dynamo. During coffee and lunch breaks, and in the moments before he begins his route, Paterson writes poems inspired by everyday things. And like an earlier Paterson resident, physician-poet William Carlos Williams, he writes poetry in his spare time. In Jim Jarmusch’s thirteenth feature, Paterson, Adam Driver plays a bus driver named Paterson who also happens to live and work in Paterson N.J. It’s not, however, based on Williams’ poem in any sense, as the director explains in an interview with Time magazine: “We requested for him to stay with us at the firehouse,” said Parkin.I’ve always liked William Carlos Williams’ book-length poem Paterson, so I was intrigued to see this trailer for a feature film inspired by it. In the meantime, the pooch - dubbed Paterson by the town’s mayor - is being kept at the Bergen County Animal Refuge in Oakland.īy state law, he’ll be checked for an identifying microchip and kept there for seven days, waiting for his owner to come forward.īut if no one claims him by week’s end, Paterson already has a new home lined up. “My guys were flawless.”Īuthorities have been unable to locate the lucky dog’s owner, and it’s unclear how he wound up in such a tight spot. “What I did was the easy part,” said Parkin. ![]() His six fellow rescuers - Erik Diaz, Rob Zeidler, Mike Payne, Ryan Higgins, Dave Leporini, and Jon Krehel - hauled both Parkin and pup back up to solid ground. 'Only love here': Animal rescue takes in puppy found with swastikas, expletives drawn on skin ![]() Teens accused of killing and eating beloved mama swan they thought was a duck, snatching her 4 babies I tore apart my fireplace to rescue a kitten: 'Never an option to not' “He knew I was there to help him, so I put the net over him and he seemed calm,” Parkin said. “When he got close enough, I maneuvered myself around him so I could block him from the water.” “The dog was a little shaken up with me there, but in a few minutes - and with some treats - he decided to walk over to me,” said Parkin. Once they spotted the imperiled black-and-white pooch, Parkin and his crew rigged a complex system of ropes and lowered Parkin some 80 feet down the face of the falls to reach their furry rescue. when an animal-loving passerby called authorities to report seeing the pup stranded at base of the cascade, said Captain Scott Parkin with Paterson Rescue 2. The smoke-eaters rushed to Paterson Great Falls Park around 1 p.m. Scott Parkin (third from right) with Paterson Rescue 2 and the rescued dog. New Jersey firefighters rappelled to the rescue of a dog trapped at the bottom of an 80-foot waterfall Sunday, pulling the pooch to safety - with the help of some tempting treats, officials said.
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