I came across this strange little video on YouTube that simply displays the text of some poems by Jack Gilbert. Gilbert has long been one of my favorite poets and a strong source of inspiration (both in my writing and in my life in general) for me. When I played this video I found it to be a peculiarly and unexpectedly appealing way of experiencing Gilbert’s poems.
It just so happened that I had the CD One Cello X 16: Natoma by Zoe Keating playing on my computer at the time that I stumbled across this Gilbert poetry video and played it for the first time, so that Keating’s music happened by chance to be the background soundtrack for these poems. And it turns out that Keating’s intimate and intense music suits this poetry perfectly.
