A new film by the indefatigable Swoon (which he blogged about here). The inspiration and reading came once again from Nic Sebastian’s new site Pizzicati of Hosanna… which takes its title from a line in this very poem.
A visually arresting, silent watercolor animation by Lilli Carré. The poem has its own Wikipedia page. (Hat-tip: Hannah Stephenson)
This has to be one of my favorite found footage-poem match-ups ever. It’s one of Nic Sebastian’s first solo efforts at videopoem-making (though she doesn’t appear to have blogged it). Here’s the text of the poem.
Another of Josep Porcar’s videopoems for the Catalan literary site Blocs de Lletres. Stevens’ poem is now in the public domain, so here’s the text:
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitterOf the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare placeFor the listener, who listens in the snow,
and, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
