David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Its emptiness that sends the deepest reverberations and be bonds unyielding echoes.
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And Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss adds, At its best, poetry shapes from the voices and experiences of our people.
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our homelands and ourselves, an approach to language that is re-vivifying and radically inventive.
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The poems of Hajar Baban's Low Flying Plains do just that, navigating a landscape and a self composed of shards born of multi-generational displacement and violence.
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She worries about which life to burn
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Birth, which meaning to speak, Babon writes, and that engine of worry in balance with the will to speak, the pulse and ingenuity of her syntax, and the design of the fragments of narrative to which she has sporadic access are the keys to her superb artistry.
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And finally, Jake Skeets, in selecting this book, declares, I look
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I look to experience the world through the lens of a poem.
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Not because I long to step into another's shoes, but because I hope for the light to be slanted when and after I read.
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I want to leave a book of poems altered in some way.
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This collection proves that poems can hold immense beauty, history, and region, and that
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If language is to be made whole, if tradition is to be made whole, if memory, if truth, it begins with a book like this.
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I'm eager for the world to enter this one and emerge on the other side, transformed, into a place where words are both nourished and at stake.
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I'm eager for this poet, for a new voice.
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Voice that asks us to change.
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It is my honor to introduce this marvelous work.
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Welcome to Between the Covers, Hajar Baban.
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So I had suggested to you last week, and you were enthusiastic about the idea, that we start with a reading of a poem called The Answer by poet Shirko Bekas, perhaps the most notable modern Kurdish poet, a poet who in the 1970s was part of a movement in Iraqi Kurdistan that broke away from rhyming couplets and the strict meter of traditional forms, and also used a more everyday
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Day vernacular within their work.
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We'll hear part of this poem again much later on today when you read one of your own poems that incorporates part of this poem as an epigraph.
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