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...Rachel Libert and Barbara Parker, winners of awards at various film festivals, including the San Francisco Film Festival, the National Poetry Film Festival and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, offer hope that poetry can be successfully and responsibly integrated with film. Their representation of Patricia Smith's "The Undertaker," in a film of the same name, is a wildly successful example of how visual imagery can reinforce the spoken word...
...gang- or drug-related slaying. The undertaker is charged with steeling himself against the gore, the blood and the tragedy in order to reconstruct the destroyed face and "exploded head" of the victim, so his mother's "dreams of her baby / in tuxedoed satin" can be fulfilled. Libert and Parker intersperse video of Smith's recitation of the poem with shadowy figures, discreet images of hands molding flesh onto the skull underneath and childhood playground scenes almost ominous in their innocence...
Students they are, or at least they say, From schools like Penn and Libert-ay, Duke, Temple, Alabama, And Southwestern Louisiana. They will converge, oh yes they will, Until but one can stand still...
...French Foreign Minister says that "France is not America's farmyard" [Jan. 28] but conveniently forgets that his country was a graveyard for Americans who fought for France's freedom. I guess it all depends on whose liberté, egalité and fraternité are on the line...
Egalité, Fraternité, Liberté! Vive la différence...