It all started with this animation/short film by Bradley Bell:

In which he inter­preted “The Laugh­ing Heart”, a poem writ­ten by Charles Bukowski, and spo­ken by Tom Waits. This should have been an easy cut-and-paste video/text post on my Tum­blr, where I usu­ally store quick-strike things of inter­est and inspi­ra­tional value. But part of the being of what has been a prod­uct of a Poetry class back in my Undergrad/University days just couldn’t let it go and be done with. The tex­tual for­mat just didn’t have a resound­ing echo to me as it should.

A part of me just wanted much more to come out of each line.¹ “Much more,” but not too much; though I have always been intrigued with a lit­tle bit of con­crete poetry.²

Con­tinue read­ing →

1. What is a line in Poetry? [↩]
2. What is con­crete poetry? [↩]