~ Poet: Luisa A. Igloria ~
Postcard From Persephone by Luisa A. Igloria
http://vimeo.com/43880844
The reading isn’t perfect, but the imaginative shot selection more than makes up for that, I think. And while most student videopoems come out of film classes, this was unusual in that it was made for a literature class, according to the brief description at Vimeo.
For more on the poet, see her website.
Reprieve by Luisa A. Igloria
Luisa Igloria has been writing daily poems for my blog, Via Negativa since last November, but I didn’t get around to envideoing any of her poems until her 50th birthday last week — shameful, I know! Luisa is the author of Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press), Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005) and eight other books, and grew up in Baguio City, the Philippines. I blogged about the making of the video here, and Luisa’s poem first appeared on the blog in text form here.
