Filmmaker: Ruben Quesada

After Love by Roger Reeves

25 February, 2015 by Dave Bonta - Leave a comment - Posted in Videopoems
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A mirrored field turns into layered images of a church interior in this new videopoem from Ruben Quesada for

A poem by Roger Reeves from his debut collection of poetry, KING ME (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).

Music: “Symphony No. 5” by Gustav Mahler

For more on Reeves, see the Poetry Foundation website. Here’s King Me.

My Handwriting by Dan O’Brien

11 December, 2014 by Dave Bonta - Leave a comment - Posted in Videopoems
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This is the most recent of three short videopoems by Ruben Quesada based on texts from Dan O’Brien‘s new poetry collection Scarsdale. (The other two are “Greenwich / Isle of Dogs” and “Breaking the Ice.”) Scarsdale was published last month in London by CB Editions, but an American edition is due out next year from Measure Press, according to the description on Vimeo.

It’s great to see a poet and editor of Quesada’s stature getting into videopoetry. He’s been at it for at least six months, judging from his output on Vimeo, and as this video demonstrates, he already has a pretty deft touch.