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Jonas Zdanys Open Windows: Poems and Translations


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I talked about time and eternity and related ideas in an earlier program and last week I talked about the figure of the wheel as it might be revealed and used in poetry. I follow up on both of those programs today and read poems about watches and clocks and such circular devices to tell time; and, perhaps most importantly, the fact of what clocks and watches do: they signify the passage of time. I read poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy, Howard Nemerov, and a found poem discovered by Steven Schroeder. I end my program with two of my own poems in which clocks play essential thematic roles.

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