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Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Is Bishop a Classical Poet?

There's a tension between the declarative part, the enstopped as you're talking about, and the wildness that's roaring beneath. And it's something i see an elizabeth bishop, we've talked about for many years, iimsure. As people sometimes try to write poems like bishop, but they're like animal poems, as opposed to poems about this roaring, raging thing,.

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