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Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Permanence and Momentary Reflections in Poetry

Exploring the permanence captured in poetry where moments are locked into the frame of a poem, creating a sense of immortality. Reflecting on the relationship between the lyric, the poet's positionality, and the poet's body within the poem, acknowledging the transient nature of moments and the mortality that is often interpreted in poetic works.

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