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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Longing to Be Saved

The enormous baby is the most mysterious point in this poem. I think we know that the speaker is in fact disturbed but around feelings And what do you make of the title? The longing to be saved. It's one of those titles where you when you're feeling lost in the poem, it's helpful to go back look at the title because I think we sometimes forget that the title exists.

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