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‘Poetry Unbound’ Returns, With Wisdom For Living Now
On Being with Krista Tippett
Is It Better to Over Pronounce Long Vowels?
i speak my own dialect with great joy and engage in happy banter about why i think it's better to over pronounce long vowels. Today's poem is by the irish language poet nolen igono. It's called keshne changan, and i'll read it in irish and in english. I place my hope on the water, in this little boat of the language,. The way a body might put an infant in a basket of intertwined iris, leaves its under side, proofed with bitumen and pitch, then set the whole thing down amidst the ege and bulrushes by the edge of a river. Not knowing where it might end up, in the...
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