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In August of 1945, the friendship between avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren and writer Anaïs Nin turned into a nasty feud. Deren immortalized the clash in a poem dedicated to Nin: For Anaïs Before the Glass The mirror, like a cannibal, consumed,carnivorous, blood-silvered, all the life fed it.You too have known this merciless transfusionalong the arm by which we each have held it.In the illusion was pursued the visionthrough the reflection to the revelation.The miracle has come to pass.Your pale face, Anaïs, before the glassat last is not returned to you reversed.This is no longer mirrors, but an open woundthrough which…