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S5 Ep 6: Some People Like Poetry by Wisława Szymborska
Readings from the Pavilion End
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6 months ago
S5 Ep 6: Some People Like Poetry by Wisława Szymborska
If you are listening to this, you probably enjoy poetry, but then...
Some people –that means not everyone.Not even most of them, only a few.Not counting school, where you have to,and poets themselves,you might end up with something like two per thousand.
Like –but then, you can like chicken noodle soup,or compliments, or the color blue,your old scarf,your own way,petting the dog.
Poetry –but what is poetry anyway?More than one rickety answerhas tumbled since that question first was raised.But I just keep on not knowing, and I cling to thatlike a redemptive handrail.
Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
(The End and the Beginning, 1993)
Source: The Wislawa Szymborska Foundation
Readings from the Pavilion End
Readings of poetry, prose and thoughts on cricket by Bill Ricquier.
