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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You know, like a
It's an odd thing to have a noble pantomimist, you know, like a worst poet would use that for the title of their book, you know, but she brings it in and it somehow fits like these kind of pantomime of gesturing nobly.
But then it's like, here's all the things that I wouldn't have been able to do, not have had to stop for gas.
A pity not to have heard.
Yes, a pity not to have pondered.
And I almost feel like she's convincing herself or is she convincing?
Who is she talking to there?
And she has it in parentheses.
But she doesn't take it out.
I mean, it's a little like that moment in One Art, her Villanelle.
with that wonderful repetition, where at the end she has that parentheses where she says, write it.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And she has to sort of convince herself, like she has to step back and say, I got to get this in there.
And as you know, that part of The Art of Losing was incredibly long, all this discourse about
and being very honest about it, and it all comes down to righted.
And I think you're absolutely right.
She has this kind of tension beyond the brackets.
I mean, everything is kind of parenthetical and bracketed and closed off, and she's really always questioning in some way.
And I think that's what people, and you put your finger right on it, sometimes miss in Bishop, is they just read the surface, you know, which, as you point out, is easy to do, to blaze through.
And really, there's a lot of...
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