This festive suite of 10 Anipoemas extends the range of Uribe’s talent to imbue letters with character, this time inhabiting different roles in a circus. Set up as a sequence that begins and ends (just follow the links) with a grand parade, these poems turn the alphabet into jugglers, trapeze artists, equilibrium acts, clowns, animals, and more. Who else would’ve had so much fun with the idea that the only difference between a 1 and an i was a diacritical dot?
To read the late Ana María Uribe’s animated poetry and see how much she was able to do with the letter and relatively simple animation tools, lends credence to this bold proclamation by Philippe Bootz: “The recent intrusion of animation into the arts is likely to instigate an era as fecund as that of Gutenberg.” To see what Uribe accomplished in just a few years of experimentation with digital media makes me believe.