Dead poets. On video.
Once, I despaired that zombies and poetry would ever find their proper relationship. Today, I despair no more, thanks to this YouTube channel in which famous dead poets read their work. A few favorites: Wilfred Owen reading “Strange Meeting,” Gerard Manly Hopkins reading “The Leaden Echo,” and Anne Sexton reading “The Truth the Dead Know.” Computer animation or necromancy? You decide!
Here’s my vote for the creepiest of the bunch, Dylan Thomas reading “Poem in October:”
(via Kottke)
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