The New Yorker: Poetry

Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke

Mar 20, 2019

31:47

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Poetry's Power Through Discovery and Transformation

01:07

Enduring Power of Poetry

01:29

Poetry as Equipment for Living

01:17

The Eye Begins to See, There's Something Other

01:44

Introduction

2min

In a Dark Time by Theodore Ratke

2min

Theodore Ruthke's Poem, That Was in a Dark Time

2min

The Garden Master, Ye E.

2min

Death of the Self in a Long, Tearless Night

2min

The Poems of the 19th Century

2min

Resky's Poems - Is He an Anthologist?

2min

A Child's Poem

2min

The Eye Begins to See, There's Something Other

2min

10.

Poems for Living

2min

11.

The Seahawks Are Reinventing With Data

3min

12.

The Last French Scene

2min

13.

The Poems of Minea, Food Is Never Just Food

2min

14.

We Used Our Hands

2min

15.

What's in a Garden of Verse?

2min

16.

Cigaratte Trilogy - A Traine Cigarat Elegy

5min

Peter Balakian joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Theodore Roethke's poem "In a Dark Time" and his own poem "Eggplant." Balakian's latest book is "Ozone Journal," which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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