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Amit Majmudar Reads Christopher Reid

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Exploring the Poem Invocation and Its Inspiration

The chapter delves into a poem titled Invocation, drawing inspiration from a child psychiatry rotation experience involving self-harm injuries on children's arms. The speaker discusses the dual symbolism of arms as body parts and weapons, inspired by Virgil's Aeneid, before reciting the poem.

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