
Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli
The New Yorker: Poetry
I Love Mona in This Poem
i love mona in this poem. What a a gift, slash vention, however it came but it has that great quality A. It leads to some of my favourite sounds in the poem. Miniature cow. Mona so named because her mood was like a moan. But also am that cow concept, half animal, half irony line,. which is so wonderful, in her rubbable muzcle. Those sounds, i think, are so rich. And then the poem is also a little able to kind of talk about these mix of feelings, some delicious to the last, and some the meanings we live but cannot have.
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