
Nick Laird Reads Elizabeth Bishop
The New Yorker: Poetry
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A Bishop, a Poet From Whom Every One May Learn
There's a lot too this poem that goes deep and all sort of interest in different directions. It was all the things that come into the journey west, which we all must go at some point in our lives. The word way and away comes up again and again in this thing. And it seems like this is the poemis about different ways of doing so. But in a strange way, it seems to include much more than one would decently expect a poem with even this length to right? Everything is there - just sort of cover every a history, geography. It covers every topic in the syllabus.
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