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Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli

The New Yorker: Poetry

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A Poem About Pandemic

Poem is about the pandemic, and how we're suffering from both. The poem has a kind of almost non poetic quality in its first two lines. But then that ripened disease, as you put it, is so powerful. It's very difficult to even figure out when did this start? You know, is is something that was even happening before the pandemic?

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