The Writer's Notebook

Video Books, maybe?

Feb 23

Charles Bivona420 Ramblings, Uncategorized animated poetry, books, Charles Dickens, Poetry Animation, Walt Whitman No Comments

Do you know what is unique about Walt Whitman? He is the most photographed poet in history—as far as I know.

He was fascinated by the new technology. In his lifetime, he had hundreds of photographs taken of himself. They are all archived and publicly available. I thought about this when I saw this video on YouTube.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaNPFGTPtsE]

This mean we could soon see a video book of Whitman’s poetry, using  photographs from the year he wrote each poem. As a Whitman scholar, that would amaze me. It could also lead to a new genre of video books.

Imagine a DVD of Charles Dickens, sitting by a fire, reading Great Expectations.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChW1aLux9wk]

I don’t know. I think it would be cool.

For more go the Poetry Animation’s YouTube Page

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