Sam Rasnake
@samrasnake.bsky.social
Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her / Jean-Luc Godard, dir. (1967)
“Words never say what I'm really saying.”
“Words never say what I'm really saying.”
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her / Jean-Luc Godard, dir. (1967)
“Words never say what I'm really saying.”
“Words never say what I'm really saying.”
Influential books:
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
One of the greatest of poets. Love this book.
“He manages like somebody carrying a box
that is too heavy, first with his arms
underneath. When their strength gives out,
he moves the hands forward, hooking them
on the corners...”
#poetry
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
One of the greatest of poets. Love this book.
“He manages like somebody carrying a box
that is too heavy, first with his arms
underneath. When their strength gives out,
he moves the hands forward, hooking them
on the corners...”
#poetry
January 29, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Influential books:
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
One of the greatest of poets. Love this book.
“He manages like somebody carrying a box
that is too heavy, first with his arms
underneath. When their strength gives out,
he moves the hands forward, hooking them
on the corners...”
#poetry
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
One of the greatest of poets. Love this book.
“He manages like somebody carrying a box
that is too heavy, first with his arms
underneath. When their strength gives out,
he moves the hands forward, hooking them
on the corners...”
#poetry
American Dream / Barbara Kopple, dir. (1990)
"I always take the side of the workers." - BK
"I always take the side of the workers." - BK
January 28, 2026 at 9:05 PM
American Dream / Barbara Kopple, dir. (1990)
"I always take the side of the workers." - BK
"I always take the side of the workers." - BK
Influential books:
The Meadow by James Galvin
100 years in the history of a meadow. A beautiful, powerful book.
“When we think of our lives as what we have done, memory becomes a museum with one long shelf on which we arrange a bric-a-brac of deeds, each to his own liking.”
The Meadow by James Galvin
100 years in the history of a meadow. A beautiful, powerful book.
“When we think of our lives as what we have done, memory becomes a museum with one long shelf on which we arrange a bric-a-brac of deeds, each to his own liking.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Influential books:
The Meadow by James Galvin
100 years in the history of a meadow. A beautiful, powerful book.
“When we think of our lives as what we have done, memory becomes a museum with one long shelf on which we arrange a bric-a-brac of deeds, each to his own liking.”
The Meadow by James Galvin
100 years in the history of a meadow. A beautiful, powerful book.
“When we think of our lives as what we have done, memory becomes a museum with one long shelf on which we arrange a bric-a-brac of deeds, each to his own liking.”
The Silence / Ingmar Bergman, dir. (1964)
An extraordinary film.
📽️🎬
An extraordinary film.
📽️🎬
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
The Silence / Ingmar Bergman, dir. (1964)
An extraordinary film.
📽️🎬
An extraordinary film.
📽️🎬
My influences:
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Not his best book, but the one that’s stayed with me the longest.
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
#writer
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Not his best book, but the one that’s stayed with me the longest.
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
#writer
January 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM
My influences:
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Not his best book, but the one that’s stayed with me the longest.
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
#writer
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Not his best book, but the one that’s stayed with me the longest.
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
#writer
L'Atalante / Jean Vigo, dir. (1934)
"Last night is the past, and the past is past."
📽️🎬
"Last night is the past, and the past is past."
📽️🎬
January 24, 2026 at 9:56 PM
L'Atalante / Jean Vigo, dir. (1934)
"Last night is the past, and the past is past."
📽️🎬
"Last night is the past, and the past is past."
📽️🎬
Band of Outsiders / Jean-Luc Godard, dir. (1964)
Godard described his film as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka."
🎬📽️
Godard described his film as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka."
🎬📽️
January 23, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Band of Outsiders / Jean-Luc Godard, dir. (1964)
Godard described his film as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka."
🎬📽️
Godard described his film as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka."
🎬📽️
Influential books:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Influential books:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
My list of influential books:
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
January 22, 2026 at 2:35 PM
My list of influential books:
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
Great for winter reading... More Flowers, Susan L Leary...
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Great for winter reading... More Flowers, Susan L Leary...
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
Great for winter reading... More Flowers, Susan L Leary...
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
January 22, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Great for winter reading... More Flowers, Susan L Leary...
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
La Pointe-Courte / Agnès Varda, dir. (1955)
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
La Pointe-Courte / Agnès Varda, dir. (1955)
My list of influential books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
January 21, 2026 at 6:33 PM
My list of influential books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
My list of influential books:
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 PM
My list of influential books:
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
Favorite films:
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”
January 19, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Favorite films:
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”
My list of influential books:
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson [Johnson edition]
– from #601, my favorite of her poems.
A still – Volcano – Life –
That flickered in the night –
When it was dark enough to do
Without erasing sight –
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson [Johnson edition]
– from #601, my favorite of her poems.
A still – Volcano – Life –
That flickered in the night –
When it was dark enough to do
Without erasing sight –
![Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson [Johnson edition]
– from #601, my favorite of her poems.
A still – Volcano – Life –
That flickered in the night –
When it was dark enough to do
Without erasing sight –](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreieul4qxgi7fuchpzzlmu62x2aqx4bzuh57qtdhcgdspp3iascjwha@jpeg)
![Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson [Johnson edition]
– from #601, my favorite of her poems.
A still – Volcano – Life –
That flickered in the night –
When it was dark enough to do
Without erasing sight –](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreiajju5c5wg7ncfm6nzmbktrrdzfjxrldlrxlnb47soexnpfdp7kla@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
My list of influential books:
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson [Johnson edition]
– from #601, my favorite of her poems.
A still – Volcano – Life –
That flickered in the night –
When it was dark enough to do
Without erasing sight –
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson [Johnson edition]
– from #601, my favorite of her poems.
A still – Volcano – Life –
That flickered in the night –
When it was dark enough to do
Without erasing sight –
Favorite films:
22. L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad) / Alain Resnais, dir. (1961)
Strange and dreamlike. A maze within a maze.
“Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps.”
22. L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad) / Alain Resnais, dir. (1961)
Strange and dreamlike. A maze within a maze.
“Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps.”
January 18, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Favorite films:
22. L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad) / Alain Resnais, dir. (1961)
Strange and dreamlike. A maze within a maze.
“Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps.”
22. L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad) / Alain Resnais, dir. (1961)
Strange and dreamlike. A maze within a maze.
“Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps.”
My list of influential books:
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
“I carry a river. It is who I am: ‘Aha Makav. This is not metaphor.
When a Mojave says, Inyech ‘Aha Makavch ithuum, we are saying our name. We are telling a story of our existence. The river runs through the middle of my body.”
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
“I carry a river. It is who I am: ‘Aha Makav. This is not metaphor.
When a Mojave says, Inyech ‘Aha Makavch ithuum, we are saying our name. We are telling a story of our existence. The river runs through the middle of my body.”
January 18, 2026 at 9:05 PM
My list of influential books:
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
“I carry a river. It is who I am: ‘Aha Makav. This is not metaphor.
When a Mojave says, Inyech ‘Aha Makavch ithuum, we are saying our name. We are telling a story of our existence. The river runs through the middle of my body.”
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
“I carry a river. It is who I am: ‘Aha Makav. This is not metaphor.
When a Mojave says, Inyech ‘Aha Makavch ithuum, we are saying our name. We are telling a story of our existence. The river runs through the middle of my body.”
Favorite films:
23. Meshes of the Afternoon / Written by Maya Deren and directed by Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid (1943)
Ahead of its time.
Deren stated that her film “externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external world.”
📽️🎬
23. Meshes of the Afternoon / Written by Maya Deren and directed by Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid (1943)
Ahead of its time.
Deren stated that her film “externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external world.”
📽️🎬
January 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Favorite films:
23. Meshes of the Afternoon / Written by Maya Deren and directed by Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid (1943)
Ahead of its time.
Deren stated that her film “externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external world.”
📽️🎬
23. Meshes of the Afternoon / Written by Maya Deren and directed by Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid (1943)
Ahead of its time.
Deren stated that her film “externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external world.”
📽️🎬
Favorite films: 30-21
24. La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1991)
Kieślowski is one of my favorite directors - short list.
“A ballerina. She lives in a box. She wants to dance, but she breaks her leg. So she turns into a butterfly.”
📽️🎬
24. La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1991)
Kieślowski is one of my favorite directors - short list.
“A ballerina. She lives in a box. She wants to dance, but she breaks her leg. So she turns into a butterfly.”
📽️🎬
January 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Favorite films: 30-21
24. La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1991)
Kieślowski is one of my favorite directors - short list.
“A ballerina. She lives in a box. She wants to dance, but she breaks her leg. So she turns into a butterfly.”
📽️🎬
24. La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1991)
Kieślowski is one of my favorite directors - short list.
“A ballerina. She lives in a box. She wants to dance, but she breaks her leg. So she turns into a butterfly.”
📽️🎬
My list of influential books:
The Bridge by Hart Crane
I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights
With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene
Never disclosed, but hastened to again,
Foretold to other eyes on the same screen
The Bridge by Hart Crane
I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights
With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene
Never disclosed, but hastened to again,
Foretold to other eyes on the same screen
January 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
My list of influential books:
The Bridge by Hart Crane
I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights
With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene
Never disclosed, but hastened to again,
Foretold to other eyes on the same screen
The Bridge by Hart Crane
I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights
With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene
Never disclosed, but hastened to again,
Foretold to other eyes on the same screen
Favorite films: 30-21
25. Close-up / Abbas Kiarostami, dir. (1990)
One of the most unique films in cinema.
“Legally it might be an acceptable charge, but morally it is not.”
📽️🎬
25. Close-up / Abbas Kiarostami, dir. (1990)
One of the most unique films in cinema.
“Legally it might be an acceptable charge, but morally it is not.”
📽️🎬
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Favorite films: 30-21
25. Close-up / Abbas Kiarostami, dir. (1990)
One of the most unique films in cinema.
“Legally it might be an acceptable charge, but morally it is not.”
📽️🎬
25. Close-up / Abbas Kiarostami, dir. (1990)
One of the most unique films in cinema.
“Legally it might be an acceptable charge, but morally it is not.”
📽️🎬