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Stephen Burt Reads Liz Waldner

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Discussion on Reflecting on Armor and Defensiveness in Poetry

A discussion on a poem mirroring defensiveness and how Marianne Moore's style reflects this theme through friendly representation and reinvented rhyme, contrasting it with the speakers' desire for vulnerability in their own writing styles.

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