Qué es el amor? / What is Love? by Lucy English
On 2 June, 2016 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments
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Eduardo Yagüe translated Lucy English’s poem into Spanish as well as into film here, and the result is, I think, an excellent fit for her Book of Hours project, casting the text into the imaginative space of temps perdu. The geographic/linguistic distance and change in the expected sex of the narrator create additional resonances. And actor Steffan Carlson’s silence is so eloquent as to supply almost a third voice to the mix. Qué es el amor? is a brilliant demonstration of how to use the narrative style of filmmaking to comment upon and transform a lyric poem.
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Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the Appalachian mountains of central Pennsylvania.
