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S1E1 | Times of Cloud (with Eileen Myles, Wallace Shawn, Maya Angelou, Sadie Stein)

The Paris Review

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The Language of English

Dennis Johnson's prose has the ring that one would read in King James version. The language of all the translations of the Bible are musical, just wonderful. I want to hear how English sounds and how Edna St Vincent Millay heard English - so I read it aloud.

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