The Paris Review

S3E1 | A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)


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Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his [Art of Poetry interview](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4678/the-art-of-poetry-no-2-robert-frost ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9hZ3SP6-g%24); the Italian poet Antonella Anedda discusses her poem “[Historiae 2](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://theparisreview.org/poetry/7487/historiae-2-antonella-anedda ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9j2rn0NSQ%24)” with her translator Susan Stewart before the American vocal ensemble Tenores de Aterúe re-imagines the poem as a song in the folk tradition of Anedda’s native Sardinia; and Yohanca Delgado reads her story “[The Little Widow from the Capital](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://theparisreview.org/fiction/7644/the-little-widow-from-the-capital-yohanca-delgado ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9iWagiT-A%24),” a tale of mystery, heartbreak, and embroidery set in a New York apartment building.

Robert Frost’s December 16, 1959, interview with Richard Poirier appears courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University's Houghton Library. PS3511.R94 Z467 1959x. [HOLLIS Permalink: 990023780790203941](https://urldefense.com/v3/ http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990023780790203941/catalog ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9jnvzRIow%24).

To learn more about Tenores de Aterúe, check out their documentary feature at [www.aterue.com\](https://urldefense.com/v3/ http://www.aterue.com ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9j0o67FmA%24). Visit [Bandcamp](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://tenoresdeaterue.bandcamp.com/ ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9hoyiL-Pg%24) to hear more of their music.

This episode was sound designed and mixed by John DeLore, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.

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