Take a look at what Tom Devaney has artfully done with "OnandOnScreen," which is devoted to poets' pairing their work with a video of their choice. The current issue includes Catherine Wagner and Wayne Koestenbaum and Matt Hart and Leonard Gontarek and other worthies. A tip of the fedora to Tom, who writes that the site is meant to present a dialogue between "moving words and moving images," enhancing "the essential strangeness" of each medium. What happens when poetry and video join forces? Here, for example, is a poem featuring a boy, a girl and "Fly Me to the Moon." You'll see. You'll hear. -- DL
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An honest, entertaining, and true poem. What catches me about it (and the pairing) is that the poem feels more subtle just when it seems to be the least subtle. And then paired with the vintage Sinatra we cannot look at either poem or video in the same way again.
Posted by: Thomas Devaney | January 30, 2012 at 09:43 AM