Moving Poems

The first half (?) of an unfinished film by Bob Madey about poetry and the two September 11s, Chile’s and the United States’, with Martin Espada’s great poem “Alabanza” as a jumping-off point, as well as some lines of Neruda (from “Pido Silencio” — “I Ask For Silence“). Below is a video of Espada reading the complete poem.

Poem and reading by Martín Espada

Animation by Kwok Tung Shuen for the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series