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Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Maybe All This Is Happening in Some Lab Under One Lamp by Day and Billions by Night

Catherine Barnett reads Maybe All This by Vislaa Samborska translated by Claire Kavanaugh and Stennis Law Baransec. The poem is about experimental generations poured from one vial to the next, shaken in test tubes,. Each of us separately plucked up by tweezers in the end.

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