Poetry Visualized - Bones - Wild Is The Wind

Bones - Wild is the Wind

Hang onto your ticket stub. The sangin' don't start til about 1:50. In the meantime there's cold pizza in the lobby.

This is the conclusion of a 57-minute presentation I did called Triptych. 'Wild Is the Wind' is a beautiful, haunting song covered by a broad range of singers including Nina Simone, David Bowie and Johnny Mathis, even George Michael. It was written by celebrated film score composer Dimitri Tiomkin for a 1956 movie of the same name. The song lyrics, written by Ned Washington, have a sort of desolate, existentialist quality.

This moves at a pretty languid pace with a poem of mine, 'Bones', interspersed throughout. The Death figure from Ingmar Bergman's 1957 classic, 'The Seventh Seal' --arguably the most striking film ever made-- pokes his gray visage in periodically, just as he's wont to do in real life. There's a lot of rattling of bones and dead leaves. The arrangement and superb piano interludes are courtesy of Tom Saputo.

This video appears in the March 2008 Houston Literary Review along with my essay 'What the Hell Is It?'

http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/N...