Who Says Words with My Mouth by Jalal ad-Din Rumi
On 10 July, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments
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Coleman Barks reads his version of the Rumi poem. I found the combination with old streetcar footage strangely effective. (The music is a little irritating, though.) As usual with the YouTube video poems from Four Seasons Productions, no credits are given for filmmaker(s). Another of their videos features a much less interesting, New Agey interpretation of a Barks/Rumi poem, “Only Breath.”
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i like the footage, as well, with the poem — how it just keeps plodding along and doesn’t (can’t) diverge from its path. and i agree — the music is distracting. i was wondering what kind of music i’d replace it with and i think i’d like to hear just his voice and for there to be silence when he wasn’t speaking.
Yeah, that’d probably work. Or else some Philip Glass, or something similarly minimalistic.