Todd Boss goes video

A poetry video might sound incongruous, but for poet Todd Boss, it’s the perfect mash-up of mediums. “The God of Our Farm Had Blades,” is a motionpoem, a miniature film based on a poem from Overtures on an Overturned Piano, Boss’s second book due out next year. According to Boss's website, Motionpoems combine spoken word with animation to create a unique artistic experience, both cinematic and poetic all at once. Check out the video here, or read more at the Christian Science Monitor:

“Books are great and all,” says Boss, “but a poetry section at the bookstore is totally daunting to a casual or first-time poetry reader. All those volumes of poems can't be broken down into ready samples unless the reader begins opening each book one by one, and trying out poems at random. In addition, books shortchange poems by presenting them as literary artifacts. Motionpoems is more true to poetry's original medium (oral interpretation) than books are, because they bring a poem's audio delights to the fore, and endeavor to stir the reader's imagination dramatically.”