Kevin Young

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1,056 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 Aug

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The New Yorker: Poetry · Richard Blanco Reads Elizabeth Bishop · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

Do you feel like that's part of your attraction to her work?

And, you know, in a weird way, all of that's in here, as you point out, but it's not mentioned.

You know, so there's this kind of interesting tension there.

and a reluctance that she has.

Is it reticence?

Is it repression?

You know, like how do you read that silence?

Well, it seems like maybe that's one of the questions she has.

We were talking about the negation because so much of the poem is about negation.

Oh, never to have done this, never to have done that, which she's already clearly done.

But then there's also this quality of what you do find, the answers you have come across and –

I think for me, there's a clue in the penultimate lines where she says, continent, city, country, society.

Which, you know, society is kind of the odd one out there in a way.

The choice is never wide and never free.

I mean, this is exactly what you're saying.

She puts it in such a beautiful, lovely way.

It almost flies by us.

But then it rhymes.

Should we have stayed at home wherever that may be?

And it applies or at least to me kind of indicts or underscores or however you want to put it exactly what you're saying.

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