Brueghel, Bowie, and William Carlos Williams

Man who fell to Earth- Icarus Descending

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The clips are from the film The man who fell to Earth. The song is from The man who fell to Earth musical

David Bowie wrote this for the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. In it, he opens a book of poetry with Brueghel's Fall of Icarus illustrated. I would like to think it's a version of WCW's poems:

See the poem here:
http://wcwbrueghelpoetry.blogspot.com/2007/05/landscape-with-fall-of-icarus.html