Poetry Studio

A poem, and the collection it belongs to.

A poem, and the collection it belongs to. The line is the unit of time, which nothing here models: a scene is timed by dialogue running at its own pace, and a poem is timed by where it breaks — enjambment, caesura, the pause a stanza ends on — so the timing IS the text rather than a consequence of speaking it. Nearest to Music video, because a recorded reading is a locked track with the pictures cut to it, and unlike it in having no beat to cut on. The continuity object is a VOICE and a system of images rather than a face: the same speaker across a collection, and a metaphor that has to mean the same thing on page forty as on page four — which is the borrowed-identity problem exactly, and the part of this tool that transfers without changes. What is missing is a collection in place of a bible, a poem in place of an episode, and a delivery that is as often a page or a reading as it is a video.

The workflow

Four phases, and only the stages this kind of production actually has — a commercial has no bible, and showing one would make the tool read as television software to everybody who is not making television.