Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Stan Brakhage: The Activity of His Nature – David E. James2. Stan Brakhage – Parker Tyler3. Brakhage. Breer. Menken. The Pure Poets of Cinema – Jonas Mekas4. Brakhage and Rilke – Jerome Hill5. On The Art of Vision – Robert Kelly6. The First Time I Heard the Word "Brakhage" – Edward Dorn7. Camera Lucida/Camera Obscura – Annette Michelson8. Brakhage Memoir – James Tenney9. Amateurs in the Industry Town: Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol in Los Angeles – David E. James10. It Is Painting – Carolee Schneemann11. Brakhage: Poesis – R. Bruce Elder12. Recollections of Stan Brakhage – Jonas Mekas13. The Roman Numeral Series – Nicky Hamlyn14. Letter re: Stan – Bruce Baillie15. Stan Brakhage, Agrimoniac – Craig Dworkin16. Brakhage Package – Chick Strand17. Brakhage's Faustian Psychodrama – P. Adams Sitney18. Stan Brakhage: American Visionary – Willie Varela19. Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics – Tyrus Miller20. Notes on Sincerity and Irony – Abigail Child21. Becoming Dark With Excess of Light: The Vancouver Island Films – Paul Arthur22. As I Am Writing This Today – Phil SolomonContributorsIndex