Kevin Young
speaker
1,056 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Kevin Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
have this idea in your head of where should we be today, she says.
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in the strangest of theaters?
And this kind of quality, and she doesn't, by strangers, I don't think she just means the human folk.
She means also the hummingbird, the stonework, any view instantly seen and always, always delightful.
Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them too?
What an amazing line.
And tell me about what that brings up for you.
I love also, as you said, she's sort of observing.
In a way, I think of her always as kind of painting this picture.
And often she's writing about pictures.
Often she's concerned with, you know, the image of the thing.
She has that great poem, Large Bad Picture.
Or, you know, like these kind of ways that she's thinking through what it means to see.
And here she's thinking, I think, also about what it means to write.
And you have this moment toward the end or at the end where she says, "...never to have studied history and never have had to listen to rain so much like politicians' speeches.
Two hours of unrelenting oratory and then a sudden golden silence."
I love that idea of comparing this very natural thing to something that she makes feel pretty unnatural, unrelenting oratory, which we've all experienced in different ways.
But then this makes her write this silence.
How do you take that?
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