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Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The New Yorker published your poem, Sun in August which you'll read for us in a moment. Is there anything you'd like to say for us or anything that might be useful for our listeners and readers? What I became interested as the poem took shape is something I see in Shamborska's work and I see in Ed Hirsch's work also sometimes where the self is made separate from the self.

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