
Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke
The New Yorker: Poetry
What's in a Garden of Verse?
This is one small segment of a longer book i'm completing now. Are these poems of the heart of it, or the whole thing one one meditation on this? No, no. These are a group of poems that have their own kind of space in a book that has a few layers to it. I've been working on for about 15 or 20 years now, atri trilogy that i call my cigarette trilogy. That's amazing.
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