OPEN SOURCE: New England Poetry Hour - Helen Vendler & Keith Waldrop
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Series: Winter 2010: Featured Shows
Length: 58:59
Helen Vendler shows us how to swim the chilly depths of Emily Dickinson. The literary critic learned through chemistry to marvel at nature's structures and patterns. Now she ignites Miss Dickinson's precision fires, from the sublime universe down to the beetles and the bees. Then to another quilter of phrases: Keith Waldrop, Brown University's own cult-poet. He says his poems are about "having nothing to say, and saying it."
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