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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Power of Saving

Roxanne Jones: Tone of that poem is so Powerful and it has the tone of what you kind of Wonder at toward the end perhaps there is such a thing as a neutral observer. It's almost like someone observing These feelings which are powerful ones A fear of both permanence and not being permanent This desire to destroy which having worked in libraries In archives. We live in a world of public shaming from radio lab Listen wherever you get podcasts. Is that the type of society we want to be?

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