Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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The Man With Night Wets - A Poem About Gay Experience
The man with night wets may be poems were the best read in conjunction with some poems in the sixten century, some poem for thomas hardy m this first one is when people felt that he had gone to hell in san francisco. This is another instance where it pays to know what has come before in the reading. That gun has set up like a musician who arrives at a set list. Some of these recordings you listen to and the poet will be bumbling and trying to figure out what it is he or she should read next.
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