An old friend, and wonderful poet and actor (you've seen him in many Scorcese and Demme movies, among others), Harry Northup has a series of YouTube videos where he reads a poem in a public place with all the noise and distractions that would normally create completely accepted and incorporated as background.
I love Harry's unique voice and his unique approach to sharing his poetry. Here he is reading from one of my all-time favorite books, his REUNIONS:
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I listened to an interview with Harry on The Greenfield Code where he read poems from Red Snow Fence and I enjoyed it so much. Now I have to get a copy of REUNIONS. Thank you.
Loved it. As for the reference to William Carlos Williams:
"No defeat is made up entirely of defeat—since
the world it opens is always a place
formerly
unsuspected."
~ From "The Descent" (1948)
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