Piece Description

Host Intro: This is Poetry Off the Shelf from The Poetry Foundation. The Poet and translator Marie Ponsot was born in New York in 1921. Her first book, True Minds, was published in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights series in 1956. Her poems are both verbally complex and extremely formal. They approach the occurrences of everyday life with intelligence and drama. This next poem, Winter, is about the difficulties of adolescence, and the at times helpless role parents take as their children grow up. Host Outro: That was the poet Marie Ponsot reading her poem Winter. The piece was produced by PoetryFoundation.org. You can find out more about Marie Ponsot, and read some of her poems, at the website PoetryFoundation.org.