
Philip Levine Reads Ellen Bass
The New Yorker: Poetry
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What's Wanted I Love by Ellen Bass
What's wanted I love by Ellen Bass, read there by Phil Levine. What an extraordinary poem. There's such a sense of ritual in it and such a clarity of purpose. Words drop in that you didn't expect like plastic. This is not some beautiful ritual of sacrifice to God or anything. It's just commerce. In fact, sometimes it goes on too long.
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