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Charles Simic Reads Sharon Olds

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Personifying the Infinite

The speaker reflects on the concept of infinity as an ultimate abstraction since childhood, recollecting the awe it instilled. They express a desire to personify the infinite, drawing inspiration from primitive cultures that personified gods with human characteristics.

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