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Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Poems for Living

In the may 20 eighth, 20 18 issue of the new yorker published your poem, egg plant. The poem is part of a cycle or poems i've been writing that are kind of, i don't know, object meditations on fruits and vegetables. I thinkh this poem is equipment for living in many ways, and in dark times here. And so theres this really interesting a comment on on our times.

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