
Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin
The New Yorker: Poetry
A Poem About Memory
i'm really interested in the mix you have between memory an elegy. Years ago, i went to noho star with some poets and cecil taylor. Nohos star is closed now, and c Cecil died yesterday. I walked. There's this, you know, the walking is almost part of what the poem is doing. It's kind of a walk. And i love the idea of a poem as a kind of walk or otion through the world.
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