“I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don’t see,”
-Lisel Mueller, “Monet Refuses the Operation”
Much of reading and reciting poetry lies in each individual performer’s interpretation of that poetry. Here is an animated interpretation of one of our POL poems, “Cartoon Physics, Part 1,” read by the author, Nick Flynn. This short video is part of a series of short poetry films on the Poetry Foundation website. After watching that poem, check out these other animated adaptations of POL poems:
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
“Dona Josephina Counsels Dona Conception Before Entering Sears” by Maurice Kilwein Guevara
“Weighing In” by Rhina P. Espaillat
“mulberry fields” by Lucille Clifton
There are also a few non-animated videos of POL poems being read by the authors: “What Kind of Times Are These” by Adrienne Rich, “Touch Me” by Stanley Kunitz, and a great archival video of Robert Frost reading “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
I think this is a GREAT!!!! Poem!