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Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Last French Scene

The image of the egg plant evokes something dark and tramatic in our family and cultures past. The image of the syrian desert atax takes my memory back to the armenian necide. And so a the elogy for the last french scene, and the fog on the river bank like a holy ghost and so on, that's evoking hard times.

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