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[0:01:04] ... in poetry or English or literature until I was a senior in high school. I have great. English teacher in high school named Allen can for. Who reminded me of Groucho Marx. Had a mustache. Probably the first. Mayor and I ever met who ...
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[0:08:51] ... a signify there and floating six. You could project as he was running for president. Whatever status. You wanted for change on to Barack Obama he did not. Materialized. Fixate or specify. Particular rise the fantasy that ...
[0:14:19] ... who have -- I'm terrified in two. A complete identification. With the Homeland Security. On that project can be interpreted as the work of an enemy as the work of the terrorist which is what how ...
[0:17:59] ... he was working at the level but -- figure. One. They chose Sarah Palin Sarah Palin becomes the equivalent of a pioneer mother pioneer won't. She -- beat the at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan regressed the nation to the site of the colonial settlers in relation with the Indians that is. They regressed the American people to the position in which sheer aggression. As a way of -- re appropriate and dignity and positions at home became the deepest asked active resource. When Sarah Palin came and she was at the colonial mother she was the -- colonial -- archetypal colonial mother. From the period that the ...
[0:19:33] ... secure it. And when. -- event happened. The public suddenly disconnected from Homeland Security. And reconnect it to opposition to the war. ...
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[0:00:07] ... and roll into our portrait series. Whose words these are. This is open source American conversation global. Accused from the Watson institute at Brown University. Steve -- is -- continued Thirtysomething Harvard professor who blogs about. Contemporary poetry and separately about his three year old -- taste ...
[0:16:03] ... written homes with movies in them they tend to be movies with Katharine Hepburn in them butts. I find myself moot. To right and having a sense that it got something new to say. Less often ...
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[0:03:26] ... to any -- And I am not and that keeps my old high school from falling into the -- ever. Unofficially she's sort of the woman behind. Behind the way that gets everything and put school the United Nations international school in Manhattan. ...
[0:15:26] ... And number. Different age groups and the hardest. One to -- his high school students because the hate anything that they have to learn in the classroom and his clinical and that's something that's not exciting ...
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[0:09:39] ... Great privilege of having very good Latin teachers. Back in the United States -- so adored provident tallest and Horace that I began to not write -- in Latin but to try. To get effects ...
[0:10:17] ... eat until very recently an educated. Person in. In England or the United States would have had some Latin and had some experience in. Translating how examiner. And reading notes of Morrison. Then nobody Thompson could tell us perhaps. And even if they hadn't had something like a high school Latin education. In the readings seventeen -- English poetry reading John -- and reading George Herbert your reading stands us that are ...
[0:12:25] ... a good thing. I hope this change in the right direction. This new book that I've just finished is more obviously and intensely political than anything I've done so far in the past. I had. I ...
[0:16:39] ... not only reading angry political homes these days. Another part of this new book. Has love homes in it and here is one of those rank. Trying to. Modulate the tone. To a very different pitch. ...
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[0:06:57] ... well. So at the point of Capone starting off with this is. Emily Dickinson also started off from the Stephens started off in another -- cult following on Sunday is I am not going to go ...
[0:24:52] ... Listen in some ways than misconceptions. That looks for us as always writing books. For a Stevens is thinking up new forms. But he's also writing -- But stripped of its. American poems at the same ...
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[0:06:48] ... of the art that this moment. In time I'm thinking in the United States in 2009. Where we hadn't torture I think I think poetry right now it I see this in the work of -- ...
[0:10:21] ... the second worst. Two catastrophe by fire and in history of the United States 492 people died. Most -- smoke inhalation within a few minutes. In Boston. On on what is now the grounds location of ...
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[0:17:26] ... the beliefs. The stakes are really -- there magnified here in the United States you lose your. Figure party loses the election you go and get a job and I think -- university could -- that. ...
[0:23:01] ... Arab. I'm African we have the same -- of the same religion book readers are contests built in to. Those distinctions what where do you come out in the end I don't know what this. Constructive ...
[0:27:06] ... our own part in that. I mean the fact that. Of the United States ties a larger percentage of its aid than any other of the western donor nations taught by -- I mean insist that. ...
[0:34:38] ... countries such as Haiti which has been a virtual colony in the United States certainly -- some big debts to too many countries in Africa. But it has to be done differently clearly hasn't worked mean ...
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[0:00:45] ... response testimonies. And athletic performance. The great girl singers of pop like Diana Ross and Janis Joplin showed in the power of voice. And of the color -- all of which he demonstrated for us to grow your tortured ...
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[0:14:59] ... do that that screeching thing that you either love or make their Mariah Carey makes when it turned the radio down right. And obviously the the the most popular song. By the media reports it is ...
[0:31:15] ... of mine of course you know -- Franklin. Who I mentioned earlier Diana Ross. I think I like singers who seemed to have something. A story attached to their singing and I bought it what I ...
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[0:02:41] ... many others well those are -- my heroes. Whoever Hopkins. -- certainly Sylvia Plath who I think has been overshadowed for so long by her. Biography. Has yet really to emerge from from that for the consummate poet she was. In fact I think probably Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath and and then for female poets huge huge influences for me. And and also. Both giving me as a female a way to look at. Being part of that that poetry pantheon because up until then you know through high school and reading. Very prescribed -- kinds of literature and and parochial school. It was male oriented and so and also. Oriented toward ...
[0:06:27] ... Well Europe Google to be applied Sylvia Plath a great -- Hidden behind the biography. ...
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[0:15:26] ... Why don't I don't teach in high school teacher and two MFA programs one it Lesley university in Cambridge and now one at Columbia university in New York. And I'm ...
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