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Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop

Aug 14, 2019
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
2
Gunn's 'Suicide', 'Mmm, Help Me'
04:30 • 3min
3
Poetry in the Sixties
07:08 • 2min
4
The Art of Losing Isn't Hard to Master
09:14 • 3min
5
Land Lies in Water
12:42 • 2min
6
Topography Displays No Favorites
15:07 • 3min
7
The First Letter in Words and Air, by Elizabeth Bishop
17:42 • 4min
8
Heavens to Day Is Something
21:45 • 2min
9
You Are Not the Moose
23:59 • 2min
10
The Map Is One of the Early Poems of Statement Wer
26:05 • 3min
11
In the Waiting Room of Ind Segan's Ina Fanaticism
28:37 • 4min
12
Isn't It Time to Go to the Dances?
32:19 • 2min
13
I Was My Foolish a I
34:07 • 5min
14
The Little Girl's Poems
39:13 • 5min
15
What Is Different About a Live Reading?
44:18 • 2min
16
Two Great Rivers, Tapajos and Amazon
46:41 • 4min
17
I Will Not Make a Wasp's Nest Into a Symbol
50:17 • 5min
18
The Man With Night Wets - A Poem About Gay Experience
55:33 • 2min
19
Do Not All Things Well by August Clinsaller
57:42 • 6min
20
I'm Sorry That the Boy From Vetnam Told Me That He'd Fire Bomb Her Car. She Won.
01:03:13 • 5min
21
Is It Better to Read a Poet's Own Poem?
01:08:09 • 2min
22
The Self-Performance of a Poem
01:10:30 • 5min
23
How Much Do You Weigh?
01:15:17 • 3min
24
Are They Composing Work Under Undert Influence?
01:17:53 • 3min