Aaron Smith
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2,298 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Aaron Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like I have goosebumps and it's painful to,
Yeah.
And then the poet usually would leave at that point, but stays, you know, the unbelieving pencil to have the pencil having a consciousness even to, and, you know, the dread.
Do you know which book that's from?
It is from Elegy, the one that was put together after his death.
Well, one thing I want to say, too, if you're reading the new and if you're reading the collected, that poem is in this section, A Hotel on Fire from Elegy and the Darkening Trapeze and unpublished poems.
Just so people, you could either read it in Pitt's The Selected Levis.
No, you could read it in Pitt's Elegy and
I'm not even shitting you, that was the second one I had bookmarked.
Oh, is that right?
Oh, no, I have another one.
You have another one?
So I'm going to read one called The Blue Hat Band.
Sometimes, even in the middle of a conversation in a bar, even at noon, I turn away.
I stare out at a single brick in a wall and a woman without a mouth begins to speak.
I listen, but it is like listening to paper when a bird walks over it.
Someone scrapes against that brick in a speech that is not human and hearing it, I forget which names I love.
My friends and what I said today mean less than a pale blue hatband on a man climbing slowly the stairs of a building in 1930.
The man arrested Anna Akhmatova's only son.
If she was silenced later, and if she stood in lines with packages outside each prison, I hope her anger will become a hollow place in an elm where lovers hide notes.
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