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? [↩]