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Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Garden Master, Ye E.

A naretky once wrote back in the mid 19 forties, when he was beginning his famous greenhouse poems. I find it's very much an interesting dialectic between psycho the self, the psychological self, the natural world and possibility of transcendence. He really did know the depth of mental anguish suffering. And he takes that, i think, he uses that so powerfully in this poem.

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