Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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The Self-Performance of a Poem
i think even morefo for a poet than a prose writer, biography can really enrich a poem. I read m sylvia plath before i knew much about her. And i read little bishop the same so i had he good experience of finding out later. It's just one lyric moment that belongs to us all and it doesn't matter if we know who or what is going on at the time. Thereae a lot of for example, in anany given year, a that these recordings would have been plucked out of,. there would have been a reading series with 30, forty, sometimes more poets involved.
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