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Famous Videotape Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Videotape poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous videotape poems. These examples illustrate what a famous videotape poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Berman, David
...ew days to set our understandings against.

Through the lanes came virgins in tennis shoes,
their hair shining like videotape,

singing us into a kind of sleep we hadn't tried yet.

Each page was a new chance to understand the last.

And somehow the sea was always there to make you feel stupid....Read more of this...



by Matthews, William
...ints doomily
down and the screams of the soon-to-be-dead
last longer by echo than the screamers do.
Let's go to the videotape, the news-
caster intones, and the control room does,
and the boat explodes again and again....Read more of this...

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