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Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Cat Is Wild, Is It?

i think this poem will remind them of the ways that he is so inventive and, as you said, sort of physical, but also unexpected. There's a certain kind of rarity in him where you have to look to find cecil taylor. I just fell like, this cat is wild. This brother. And i was listening and listening, and i thought, wild, like, how did this happen?

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