"Stewart was 23 at the time, old enough to know better and young enough not to care, and wore her literary influences (Kerouac, Bukowski, Tom Waits) a little too readily on her sleeve. My Heart is a Wiffle Ball/Freedom Pole turned out to be a free-style, impressionistic affair, apparently written during a cross-country road trip and fuelled by the excitement of cocky gilded youth."
"Her rites-of-passage drama is based on the 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch and stars Imogen Poots as a damaged, striving artist, but it's essentially Wiffle Ball: The Movie, an extended piece of teen poetry, which proves that Stewart has learned nothing from the Marie Claire incident except to hold the line and speak her truth and dare the critics to drown her out with their laughter."
In 2014 Kristen Stewart published a poem in Marie Claire at age 23, showing clear influences from Kerouac, Bukowski and Tom Waits and prompting responses ranging from glee to scorn and pitying condescension. The poem, My Heart is a Wiffle Ball/Freedom Pole, was a free-style, impressionistic piece reportedly written during a cross-country road trip and fuelled by gilded youthful excitement. Stewart's feature directing debut, The Chronology of Water, adapts Lidia Yuknavitch's 2011 memoir and stars Imogen Poots as a damaged, striving artist. The film adopts a non-linear plot, dreamy narration and close-up collages of shells and coloured pebbles, embracing brazen, shameless poetic aesthetics while courting mixed reactions and occasional faint magnificence.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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