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“They taste good to her / They taste good / to her. They taste / good to her...” Rafael Campo reads William Carlos Williams’s poem “To a Poor Old Woman” and speaks with Elisa New about enjambments, plums, and empathy for Poetry in America.
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, and featuring poems by Ron Padgett, Paterson stars Adam Driver as a bus driver who writes poetry and whose favorite poet is William Carlos Williams.
With animation by Isaac Holland, this video features the poem “Smell” by William Carlos Williams, and is narrated by the poet. The Poetry of Perception short animation series focuses on representations of sensory perceptions and is produced for Harvard University's Fundamentals of Neuroscience course.
