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Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Poems of the 19th Century

Kavinn: Rudke was very early to write about some of these questions. He's one of the best at enacting a, what used to be called madness. I think that the greenhouse poems of the mid and late 19 forties broke ground in emerging what i like to call the onto genetic and the philo genetic. And other poets would move into that zone shortly thereafter.

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