A Seismographic Attention: An Evening Of and On Poetry

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

English - May 20, 2015 03:00 - 1 hour - 76 MB - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
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The masterful poet and essayist shares her latest two works—Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, a dazzling collection of essays on poetry, and The Beauty, her newest book of poems—for a close look at poetry’s power to expand our perception of the perimeters of existence. Join Hirshfield as she walks us through many wonderful poems, examining how they work by tuning our attention, renovating language, and unfastening the mind.