I discovered the Poetry Foundation website a while back and have casually dipped in and out of its archive since, Yet it's only recently that I've paid serious attention to their podcast "Poetry Off the Shelf" I download several at a time onto my tiny Creative Zen mp3 player and take them with me onto the oppressively crowded mid-winter streetcars and subways. Thus it was that I sat, stuck in traffic this morning, knitting a sock, listening to Gertrude Stein's own voice reading in 1934 from Tender Buttons,
"She is sweetly here and I am very near and that is very lovely"
Priceless.
Here I am hanging with Gertrude in Bryant Park NYC in 2006
No comments:
Post a Comment